Rural

NY Times: The Resentment Fueling the Republican Party Is Not Coming From the Suburbs By Thomas B. Edsall - Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.

In terms of major factors driving the urban-rural split, our analysis shows that rural Republican areas are becoming more Republican predominantly due to voters in these places switching their partisanship to Republican. This is in contrast to urban areas becoming increasingly more Democratic largely due to the high levels of Democratic partisanship in these areas among new voters entering the electorate. These new voters include young voters registering once they become eligible and other new voters registering for the first time.