How Rural America Learned to Love the Republican Party

One county in Kentucky is typical. Formerly run exclusively by Democrats, it gave three-quarters of its vote to Donald Trump due to cultural ...

They surveyed 10000 rural voters. Here's what they learned. - Politico

... Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America.” The sharp swing of rural voters toward the Republican Party since the ...

Video: The Fight for Rural America - The New York Times

One in five Americans identifies as rural, and since the 1960s, their votes have become increasingly Republican.

Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South

Political scientists MV Hood III and Seth C. McKee trace the process by which rural white southerners transformed from fiercely loyal Democrats to stalwart ...

Understanding the Rural Voter - Colby News

Government professors Nick Jacobs and Dan Shea take a deep dive into a vital voting bloc that could determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

What Makes Rural Voters Tick? - Barn Raiser

Decoding the myth of “real America” and how the Republican party reinvented itself as the party of rural America.

Why Trump made rural Americans turn their backs on Democrats

Trump's ascension to the helm of the Republican party undid progress Democrats had made in winning the trust of voters in rural areas nationwide.

How 'Rural Studies' Is Thinking About the Heartland

Published in February, “White Rural Rage,” by the journalist Paul Waldman and the political scientist Tom Schaller, is an unsparing assessment ...

7. Partisanship in rural, suburban and urban communities

Registered voters in urban areas mostly align with the Democratic Party. Rural areas are increasingly Republican and suburbs remain divided.

The Resentment Fueling the Republican Party Is Not Coming From ...

The anger and resentment felt by rural voters toward the Democratic Party are driving a regional realignment similar to the upheaval in the white South.

How to End Republican Exploitation of Rural America

The authors of the upcoming book “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy” explain how rural voters can build a national ...

How come rural folk in the USA are overwhelmingly right-wing, in ...

Rural poverty is a major issue in the USA - so why doesn't it drive rural Americans to the left (or even to socialism/communism) like it does in ...

'None of the Politicians Come to See Us at All' – How Rural People ...

... conservative politicians and the Republican Party? In rural areas as in cities, many poor individuals vote for Democrats. But research also ...

What's Next for the Rural Americans Who Oppose Trump? | The Nation

In rural communities, 70 percent of elections are uncontested. With Trump winning a second term, it's never been more urgent to build power ...

What Liberals Get Wrong About 'White Rural Rage' - Politico

After 2016, when rural voters in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania put former President Donald Trump over the top, Democrats tried to figure ...

The 'rural-urban divide' furthers myths about race and poverty ...

This piece presents two societies so fundamentally opposed they barely belong to the same world, framing urban America as diverse, educated, ...

Review: Who Is the Rural Voter? Book Builds on Old Themes to ...

With the help of the largest ever survey of rural voters, two political scientists explore the sources of division between rural and urban America.

The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976–2020

We seek to explain the sources of this growing cleavage by examining two interrelated processes of change: political-economic transformation that elevated many ...

The Rural Turnaround - The American Prospect

Democrats have been losing rural America by ever-worsening margins. If they could perform even 5 percent better in rural counties, the political landscape ...

The Fight for Rural America - YouTube

Tim Walz, a former high school football coach from a tiny town, has folksy sayings and a camo cap. JD Vance shot to fame with “Hillbilly ...