He thinks he has the data to prove it. I don’t disagree that the United States is in crisis, with fissures breaking apart our facade of national unity and revealing structural weaknesses of the republic. Our federation — and, therefore, the world — is in peril, and the stakes are enormous. As the author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, however, I strongly disagree with the now-conventional narrative that what ultimately divides us is the difference between metropolitan and provincial life. The real divide is between regional cultures — an argument I fleshed out at the outset of this series—as it always has been. And I now have the data to demonstrate it.
If this argument as a familiar ring, you probably encountered this 1991 book....
...which is still available in LINKcat.
Personally, I wouldn't put all of my research eggs in the 2008 basket.
Welcome to Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, Greater Appalachia, where Clinton beat Trump by 25.8 percentage points.
Let's take a closer look. (And I repeat, [w]ithin each of the 11 “nations” of the U.S., rural and urban voters actually behave very similarly.)
Source: Wikipedia (by county)
Source: Wikipedia
Opinion. The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line. (The New York Times, 7/30/2018)
In five regional cultures that together constitute about 51 percent of the United States population, rural and urban counties voted for the same presidential candidate, be it the “blue wave” election of 2008, the Trumpist upheaval of 2016 or the more ambiguous contest in between. In the Deep South, Greater Appalachia, New France and the Far West, rural and urban majorities supported Republican candidates in all three elections, whether voters lived in central cities, wealthy suburbs, mountain hollers or the ranches of the high plains.
State and regional maps and county voting statistics used in original 3/13/2018 post, "It's not 2008 anymore in Indianapolis and Marion County, Greater Appalachia", start here.
Source: Wikipedia (by county)
State and regional maps and county voting statistics used in original 3/13/2018 post, "It's not 2008 anymore in Columbus and Franklin County, Greater Appalachia", start here.
Welcome to Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio Greater Appalachia, where Clinton beat Trump by 26.2 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election.
Let's take a closer look. (And I repeat, [w]ithin each of the 11 “nations” of the U.S., rural and urban voters actually behave very similarly.)
Source: Wikipedia (by county)
You can check for yourself, but Merriam-Webster doesn't list 'vote' as a synonym for 'behave'.
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Dear advertisers and marketers, the color blue is not limited to coastal cities in New York and California. (8/9/2018)
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