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The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day Support for Democrats up and down the ballot has plummeted throughout the countryside and the entire governing system is threatened by oneparty dominance After Donald Trumps surprising victories throughout rural America pundits and journalists went searching for answers popping into roadside diners and opining from afar Rural Americans are supposedly bigots culturally backward lazy scared of the future and radical But is it that simple

This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the rural votera new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns Nicholas F Jacobs and Daniel M Shea uncover how this overwhelmingly crucial voting bloc emerged and how it has roiled American politics They show how perceptions of economic and social change racial anxieties and a traditional way of life under assault have converged into a belief in rural uniqueness and separateness

This book offers a timely warning that the chasm separating urban and rural Americans cannot be papered over with policies or rhetoric Instead The Rural Voter demonstrates this division strikes at the heart of enduring conflicts over American identity