U.S. ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest
The number of preppers has doubled in size to about 20 million since 2017, due to more people or color and progressives joining the community, experts say.
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I can't help but feel like the pandemic had an impact too.
You don't need to last through nuclear war, but having a weeks worth of groceries when it randomly snows a foot, or some candles and flashlights for when the power goes out is prepped too.
We live in crumbling infrastructure with an inept government in a politically divided culture that's starting to see climate change impact. Being a little prepared is not as strange of an idea as it used to be lol.
I think it only became strange a few generations ago
And only in cities. Self reliance is a major tenant of rural culture.
Right? I am fairly rural myself and the mindset of some seems naive to me. Like not having candles and flashlights because the power always comes back in a few hours.
