(June 25, 2016 at 4:33 am)abaris Wrote:(June 25, 2016 at 4:17 am)LastPoet Wrote: I had a bigger consideration of brits in general and I thought the percentage of education was bigger there.
Truth is, they are just people. Some of them frightened, some of them concerned, some of them nationalists, racists, or whatever. What they all have in common is being easy prey for pied pipers, following their own agenda.
Truth is also, even if it's 52 vs 48 or something, it's only half of the country. Annd you can observe the same trend as in other countries. The big hubs voted largely for remain while the rural areas voted exit. Which doesn't mean, people on the countryside are stupider. They just feel more disenfranchised, being left out, and serious information has a hard time competing with shrill fear mongering.
We had the same picture in our recent presidential elections. Big cities voted for the moderate candidate, while the countryside voted for the right wing nationalist and EU sceptic. We also have a peculiar situation, since a quarter of the population lives in the capital. I'm pretty sure, if something like that would happen in Portugal, you would see the same divide between city and countryside, problematic and thriving regions. The answer is always the same. The divide runs between the ones feeling left out and the ones feeling to have a real chance in life. It also runs between old and young people.
Just as in America: rural areas tend to vote conservative.
