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The Rural Side of the Urban-Rural Gap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2006

James G. Gimpel  and
Kimberly A. Karnes
James G. Gimpel
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Kimberly A. Karnes
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
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The time does seem to be ripe for revisiting the urban-rural divide, with an eye toward understanding what lies beneath it. The last two presidential elections have revealed an urban-rural cleavage that is hard to ignore. Most observers now recognize that the “red” vs. “blue” Election Night maps really mask an urban-rural divide within states—a gap that has increased in recent years according to a range of definitions. In 2004, the difference in Democratic support between the most and least populous counties in the nation exceeded 25 points (see Figure 1). Survey marginals are comparable, although rural populations are not well represented in most national polls. Tabulations from the 2004 American National Election Studies (ANES) indicate a 20-point gap in presidential preference between inhabitants of counties with more than a million people and those in non-metro counties of less than 25,000.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 467 - 472
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© 2006 The American Political Science Association

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