Democrats have been engaged in a decades-long quest to figure out why White rural voters have steadily turned away from their party in favor of Republicans. Is it race, class, the economy or some mix of policy issues? The last few election cycles revealed a growing rural-urban gap, with Democrats’ power increasingly concentrated in cities — which is not sufficient to win the presidency or majorities in Congress. In the book Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy, politi
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How Democrats Lost White, Rural America
