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In political science, the urban–rural political divide is a phenomenon in which predominantly urban areas and predominantly rural areas within a country have sharply diverging political views. It is a form of political polarization .
A country once defined by regional voting now is more clearly divided by the differences between rural and urban voters. In rural-urban divide, U.S. voters are worlds apart Skip to main content
It’s the idea that you don’t need to build bridges across political divisions; you just need a new map. Greater Idaho is a pipe dream, a symptom of a deeper problem: the urban-rural divide ...
What I saw on a trip back to the Kinston area made me heartsick. NC lawmakers must act. | Letters to the editor
Urbanization was fastest in the Northeastern United States, which acquired an urban majority by 1880. [2] Some Northeastern U.S. states had already acquired an urban majority before then, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island (majority-urban by 1850), [4] [5] and New York (majority-urban since about 1870).
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 married-couple households (76.3 percent compared with 67.4 percent).
That's the case in some rural areas where there are sometimes no candidates for an elected office. Political divides, declining population are causing fewer people to run in rural local elections ...
Rural versus urban remains a factor in American politics. [13] Hal S. Baron argues farmers often were at odds with the dominant worldview. Their localism was rooted in Jeffersonian democracy and its republican ideals. They feared concentrated economic and political power, and distrusted urban ostentation.