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Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans | Cornell Chronicle (news.cornell.edu)

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Over the past 30 years, the American political landscape has been characterized by a growing divide between rural and urban voters, almost as if they’re on two opposing teams, according to Suzanne Mettler, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S).

But the divide is confined largely to white Americans, Mettler and collaborators have found in an examination of the racial and ethnic facets of the trend.

When it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents, the researchers report. With one in four residents of rural America now identifying as nonwhite, the study’s findings raise concerns about political representation of Black and Latino Americans and highlights a need for further research on rural people of color broadly, including racially marginalized groups beyond Black and Latino people.

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[-] Ballistic_86@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have thought about this as just some fucking Lemmy commenter.

Rural white Americans used to benefit from conservative systems. Maybe not the current people, but their parents or grandparents. And while conservative leadership destroys their lives, campaign promises are often made to farmers/miners/other heavy industry. Any failures (the system working as intended) are blamed on “the other side” This upholds the divide between rural and urban whites as intended.

With black and brown people becoming more prominent in rural communities as members instead of just laborer, those previously felt conservative views don’t hold up. They aren’t benefiting, their parents didn’t, their grandparents definitely didn’t. On top of the racial divide that conservatives operate under, rural whites and rural POCs are likely to not share the same political values despite being a like in lifestyle.

But what do I know, just some guy from the suburbs death scrolling Lemmy

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Rural whites have a cultural identity that is going to be really hard for them to shake. In addition to country music and trucks a major component of that identity is being conservative. People all over imitate this, as you know from probably seeing lifted pickups in your suburbs.

I agree that white people in rural areas have been getting massive benefits like farm and oil subsidies, that wouldn't have as much effect if there weren't a cultural component getting people to identify as "country."

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