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Rural Versus Urban The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy | 5.93 MB
Title: Rural Versus Urban
Author: Suzanne Mettler, Trevor E. Brown
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Rural, Political Science, Government, Public Policy, Politics, History & Theory
Language: English | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0691264384
Description:
How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization
Why have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between "us" and "them"? In Rural Versus Urban , Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown argue that political polarization is not just about red states and blue states, or coastal elites who alienate those in fly-over country. Instead, polarization permeates every region and every state-and has become organized through a pernicious rural-urban division. Mettler and Brown explain the evolution of this gulf across five decades, charting political trends in both places. Drawing on data on individuals, communities, and members of Congress, as well as interviews with local party leaders and former elected officials, they show how the divide emerged and why it poses a threat to democracy.
Until about thirty years ago, both political parties attracted support from rural and urban voters. But after place-based inequality grew...
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