"Libs keep moving in and trying to change things!!" What does this even mean?

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23. I know what that means around my little 70 acre patch...

For 50 years or more kids born onto local farms have been mostly moving to jobs in distant cities.

There are few people a farming family can pass a farm to as inheritance.

As a consequence elderly farm couples are selling out, and their farms are being cut up into 3-5 acre plots. It makes for a pretty good purse.

Way to small to be productive farms. And when the new residents come in they do things like practice chipping golf balls on thie 2.5 acre lawns, and they jog on the sides of the roads during morning rush hour, and ride bicycles down narrow hard topped roads, congesting traffic for people commuting 40-50 miles to a shit paying job.

Which is to say. The new comers bring with them their interests and habits from their previous existance. They don't exactly fit the local profile.

Bike riding and jogging aren't on most farm families activity lists. The new folks look "otherly" to the fewer and fewer surviving oldsters. With no one else to blame, the oldsters look at 500 dollar jogging clothes/shoes and 1500 dollar bicycles and absolutely know these people are something that they aren't.

So they call them LIBS, because who else would be running and biking in such expensive rigs? It's basic human nature. See change as being brought by "others" and stereotype that other as a group that can 'safely' be chided within a community.