Illinois mayor who attended Trump's DC rally apologizes after claiming the media lied about riot

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The mayor of Thomasboro, Illinois apologized for accusing the media of lying about the violence during the Capitol riot attacks.

Republican Mayor Tyler Evans described being at the Capitol building as euphoric and "the most exhilarating thing" in a Facebook video that has now been deleted from Facebook.

Evans admitted to being on the Capitol steps in the video but said he did not breach security or see any violence.

"When I got back to my hotel, I flipped on the news...it's a bunch of bullsh-t," he said in the video.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-mayor-attended-trumps-dc-171052801.html

[SharonClark]

1. A village (literally) lost its idiot for a few days.

Thomasboro is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,126 at the 2010 census.
Thomasboro has a total area of 1 square mile.
The racial makeup of the village was 95.38% White, 1.30% African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.73% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 0.73% from other races, and 1.54% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.22% of the population.

source: wikipedia.

[Indykatie]

2. I Never Understood Why We Have Such Small Towns and Cities in the US

My high school graduation class had more people in it than this town of 1126 with our 1208 students. I've seen towns that just has hundreds of people.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I Sub In 3 Towns, 1,000 or Less

One of them only has 550 people.
Not sure how they can afford a K-8 school.
I also sub in towns of 25,000 & 160,000.
I live right at the edge of where the metro area becomes farm country for most of the next 250 miles!
700,000 in our county. Next county south is 105,000. Next county west is 35,000. The one south of that county is 33,000 for the whole county! These two counties have 10% of the population of our county, and these are all 8 to 15 miles away!

[murielm99]

4. You have to live in a rural area

to understand it. Many people prefer to live that way. Many of them have lived in the same home for generations. If there is employment, it works for them. Some of them, who farm, often have off-farm jobs. Some teach. Some are self-employed.

My community has 2,355 people. The largest town in my county has a population of a little over 9,500.

Why do you live in a large town? I do enjoy visiting cities and have no desire to mock your lifestyle. But you could not pay me to live that way.

Some of this small town tradition goes back to the seven mile rule. During the horse and buggy days, towns were about seven miles apart. It was possible to travel from one town to another in one day if the towns were about seven miles apart. It was possible to do errands in town and get home the same day if the distance was seven miles or less. Today, some of these "towns" are not incorporated, they do not have zip codes, and their mailing addresses have the zip code of a larger, nearby community. Some of them do have post offices and zip codes, though. Either way, they still have names. They have names like Haldane, Nelson, Walton. They are still communities. Yes, some of them do have only hundreds of people.

States even more rural than Illinois certainly have more of this. It is worth exploring and trying to understand our rural town history. We are never going to bridge the urban/rural divide unless we do.