Presidential candidates and journalists fawn over rural and small-town America even though most Americans—more than 80 percent of us—live in cities and suburbs. Why?
Read two responses to this question—one from Brookings, the other from BLDGBLOG.
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Well, the first thing we could do to stop the power of this false narrative is to stop buying into the red/blue political discourse. If you go to the electoral maps found in the BLDGBLOG link you will see that it is hard to find a "red" county that doesn't include a reasonable dose of blue, and hard to find a "blue" county without a notable bit of red.
Neither our values nor our politics are all that divided by our geography - something an entire media industry is heavily invested in making sure we don't ever notice.
Posted by: Lori | October 20, 2008 at 08:50 AM