They seem to love the cookie cutter houses chain restaurants and expensive unsustainable living that typifies the American suburb.
I posted a cookie cutter suburban house one time saying it looks like dog shit and bunch of chuds were like “What a beautiful house”.
Spoiled upper middle class women and chuds just seem to venerate suburban sprawl.
Why?
Libs love suburbs too. Maybe they aren’t quite as violently attached to lawns and detached housing, but they certainly love suburbs.
It’s a lot of factors. Culture indoctrination is a big one. The cliche 1950/60s post-WWII “everyone is making it” type ideal (of course “everyone” excludes non-whites for the most part) is a mainstay for decades now.
On the more abstract level there’s remnants of the American frontier and obsession by modern Americans (and not just today, but going back to like the 1940s and shit) of planting their flag on something and signing some documents to make it legally theirs forever. Anything goes in your little “castle” and you get to kill anyone who steps on your precious lawn… or so goes the mythology. They’re LARPing, in essence, the idealized mythology of their forefathers.
Houses and more broadly speaking owning land (a few acres or whatever) was and still is for many people the ultimate goal. After the (now) Western US was conquered and brought into the US properly, there was no more land to conquer on the continent.
The entire mission of the US “manifest destiny” had been accomplished. The land was seized, the indigenous people killed or forcefully removed, and all the newly open land was divided up to the conquering people. Over time (actually similar to feudal Europe as Western Rome fell apart) the massive pieces of land got divided up as inheritance or sold off otherwise. If you ever look at how much land a single person or family once owned in like the 1700s or 1800s up into the 1900s it’s almost laughable. Like one family owning modern San Francisco (real thing).
Anyway, all the absolutely ridiculous sums of land ended up basically into how it is today with all these 1 acre or whatever detached single family homes in the suburbs. It’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller. It’s kinda doing a multi layered thing if you’re one to buy into the thought that owning land and having your little fiefdom is important. You still want it, but it’s not as “easy” as it once was where you just joined the US army while they killed some indigenous people and then afterward you got a bunch of land. Or being the children, grandchildren or great grandchildren of those people. Now there’s finite amounts of land, it’s not “free” for people to claim, and that little dream of having your own little god-like palace is fading.
So, if you value that fantasy because you’ve lived 40, 50, 90 years or whatever of your life being told there is no other way, then it’s scary to think it’s ending. You have to covet what you might have even more. “Everything might be shit, but look at my beautiful two story suburban home on 2 acres that I painstakingly trim the grass on every 5-10 days- depending on the weather.” It’s always been there. It must always be there. And if you question it being there you are questioning existence itself in a very real way to them.
There’s definitely some enculturation there; they’ve been taught these things are desirable. I think a lot of them don’t really have any aesthetic sense of their own, per se, but just think mcmansions are beautiful and desirable bc that’s what the culture around them says to them at all times. Many of them don’t have any experience of community, or when they did live in a community they were very brainworms about it. A lot of them are totally uncritical of cars and capitalism
I think there’s just a profound amount of “what no theory does to a mf” going on at some level.
Because they love redlining. No minorities in the burbs, the police harass any that dare come out there
No homeless out there either. Just endless yardwork and home repairs to keep your hands busy so they don’t become the Devil’s playground.
It’s a busy box for morons so they don’t give in to their more anti-social impulses.
The suburbs are there to keep suburbanite psychos away from the rest of us.
Too bad that suburbs are the affordable “working class” option in this hellworld of unchecked real estate investors, because I would gladly use the suburbs in the boonies as a giant gulag for fascists. They can go LARP their all-white utopia in Montana, but have to leave the rest of us alone.
Only poors and liberals live in the “inner city” with them “urban” folks
I guess if you’re white and super-racist but also poor, you live in a trailer park.
When I moved into my current apartment, a few co-workers (all older men of mennonite background) warned me that I was moving into a “ghetto”. Of course I’d looked at the apartment and neighbourhood before signing the lease. All I saw was a clean, well-maintained apartment in completely gentrified area. I had no idea what they were talking about. It was only later that I learned that to those co-workers, “ghetto” didn’t mean “slum” - it meant “lots of black people live there”.
There’s a reason it’s called Castle Doctrine. The law itself is fine, but just name of it reinforces the notion that these people see their homes as one of the last layer of defense behind the savages outside. The sprawl let’s them experience a piece of rural living which they likely romanticize.
