While millions of urban Women’s March demonstrators showed there’s strength in numbers on Saturday, small-town America proved there’s also strength in taking a stand no matter how many people are by your side.
Sister marches to the Women’s March on Washington sprung up in every nook and cranny across the U.S. this weekend, even in cities home to fewer than 10,000 people. In some of those tiny towns, local residents estimate around half its citizens marched.
Two professors, the University of Connecticut’s Jeremy Pressman and the University of Denver’s Erica Chenoweth, have been collecting data on Saturday’s marches and so far have counted more than 500 gatherings across the country.
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Singer-songwriter Carole King held down the fort in Stanley, Idaho, which has a population of around 60 people. She tweeted that half the town joined in its Women’s March.
Half the town of Stanley, Idaho (pop. 63) came out in a snowstorm to march in peace & solidarity w/ men, women, & children on 7 continents. pic.twitter.com/tLPCognu2t
As many as 700 marchers gathered in Carbondale, Colorado, a town of about 6,500 people, and formed a mile-long line of people.
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Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy said his hometown of Telluride, Colorado, saw about half its 2,300-person town come out to march.
My tiny hometown of Telluride did a Women's March & over 1,000 people showed up and marched in the snow. 50% of the population. Incredible! pic.twitter.com/uCa2iD6JCK
In Longville, Minnesota, a town of about 150 people, retired librarian Michelle Barton prepared for a solo march.
“My hope was that some people might join me,” she told Minnesota Public Radio. “I have a very active imagination, so my worst-case scenario was people driving by and taking potshots at me.”
And in Black Mountain, North Carolina, home to just over 8,000 people, more than 600 showed up to march, resident Kris Kramer told The Huffington Post.
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