The Rural Voter

Autorentext
Nicholas F. Jacobs is assistant professor of government at Colby College. He is a coauthor of What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America (2022).

Daniel M. Shea is professor of government at Colby College. His books include Why Vote? Essential Questions About the Future of Elections in America (2019).

Klappentext

This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the "rural voter"-a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Preface
Introduction: Two Americas

1. Who and What Is Rural America?
2. The Deep Roots of the Rural-Urban Divide (17761980)
3. Manufacturing the Myth of Real America (1980Present)
4. Listening to Rural Americans
5. Down and Out in Rural America?
6. A Wasteland of Alienation?
7. Clinging to Their Guns and Religion?
8. Irredeemably Racist?
9. Radicalized by Fox?
10. Pulling It All Together: Finding the Rural Voter
11. Bridges Across the Rural-Urban Divide
    Notes
    Index