In my county, where the two main candidates for county executive are both conservative fuckwads bickering over which one is the "real" conservative (and which one is the "RINO" 🙄), a major point of contention is whether a new bus maintenance facility will "bring in people from the city" (the obvious racism implied but not directly stated).

One of them is saying "So-and-so wants to fund a new transit facility which will bring in those people from the city."

A sane response would be "So? Fund the damn infrastructure."

Not here. The other guy is like "LIES! The new maintenance facility won't establish any new routes, so those unwanted city folk will remain where they are and not bother us here!"

Yeah... I don't think my county is getting public transit any time soon... and I feel this may be representative of the outlook in many conservative counties across the US...