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The rural South has been agriculturally oriented regarding cotton, tobacco, and other crops, resulting in economic and social disparities. Additionally, cultural and political differences have contributed to conflict, with rural areas often being more conservative and religious while urban areas tend to be more diverse and liberal.
While rural voters only make up around 15% of the American electorate, their emergence as a reliable conservative voting bloc has redrawn the maps of electoral politics. In 2008, Barack Obama won ...
Rural areas moved right, and big cities like New York got substantially redder between 2020 and 2024, said the economist Jed Kolko. He said some of the shift in already-conservative areas might be ...
In the 21st century, rural areas of the United States that are predominantly non-college educated, Christian, and White are generally conservative bastions. [175] Voters in the urban cores of large metropolitan areas tend to be more liberal and Democratic. There is a clear urban–rural political divide within and among states. [176]
PRINEVILLE, Oregon ‒ Tens of thousands of rural, conservative eastern Oregon residents are so frustrated with their liberal urban neighbors they've decided they can no longer even share a ZIP code.
About 13.4 million children under the age of 18 live in rural areas of the nation. [12] Children in rural areas had lower rates of poverty than those in urban areas (18.9 percent compared with 22.3 percent), but more of them were uninsured (7.3 percent compared with 6.3 percent). A higher percentage of "own children" in rural areas lived in ...
Environmentalism is not only historically conservative, but the movement’s future is also irrevocably tied to it. Young rural conservative voters want clean energy. GOP can't win without them ...
Other urban areas, such as Pittsburgh, Erie, Harrisburg, Allentown, and Scranton lean Democratic as well. Like most states, Pennsylvania's rural areas tend to be more conservative and support Republicans. The resulting political map of Pennsylvania is therefore a red "T" in the center of the state with the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas a ...