Walking Places Is Part of the Culture Wars Now

For two million years, we have walked this Earth to get what we need. Now, 60 percent of Americans want to drive everywhere.

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According to a recent Pew Research Center poll that studied the issue of whether people prefer to live in places where "schools, stores, and restaurants are within walking distance" versus where they are "several miles away," the biggest divide in opinion is not young versus old, urban versus rural, or education level. It is political preference. Just 22 percent of Conservatives want to live in walkable neighborhoods, while 77 percent prefer driving everywhere. A slightly higher percentage of Republicans or people who lean Republican as a whole, 26 percent, want walkable neighborhoods. Meanwhile, 44 percent of moderate Democrats and 57 percent of liberals want walkable neighborhoods, resulting in a 50/50 split among Democrats as a whole.

Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5a...tm_source=digg

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Part of me wanted to (and still sorta does) dismiss this with a snarky "Oh so when %$#@! is further apart people don't want to walk as much? Thank God we have people to write thinkpieces about that..."

But it is... true. I have on many occasions brought up a LOT of liberal/progressive goals/pipedreams only work if you are in a dense urban core where you can walk everywhere.

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/38saDVS