Resources from the field
To help understand the rural-urban divide
Articles and Reports
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“What Democrats Don’t Understand About Rural America”
By Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward -
“The Best Way for Democrats to Win Working-Class Voters”
By Matt Morrison -
“Bette Midler’s Contempt Fuels Right-Wing Populism”
By Erica Etelson and Anthony Flaccavento -
“Why Democrats Keep Losing Rural Counties Like Mine”
By Bill Hogseth -
“Organizing on the coasts won’t save the planet”
By Jane Kleeb -
“If Declining Towns ‘Deserve to Die’, Where Should Their Residents Go?”
By Brian Alexander -
“The Lies We’re Told About Appalachia”
By Ivy Brashear -
“What Democrats Still Don't Get about Winning Back the White Working Class”
By Andrew Levison -
“How Capitalism Underdeveloped Rural America”
By Mark Edelman -
“If Progressives Don’t Try to Win Over Rural Areas, Guess Who Will”
By George Goehl -
“To get rural Americans involved in climate crisis, see them for who they are”
By Michelle Nijhuis -
“Factory Towns”
By Richard Martin -
“The Gentrifcation of the Rural West”
By Ryanne Pilgeram -
“How Democrats Gave Up on Rural America”
By Nick Bowlin -
“Democratic Elites Don’t Understand the Class Culture Gap”
By Joan C. Williams -
“What Liberals Get Wrong About ‘White Rural Rage’ — Almost Everything” by Nicholas F. Jacobs
Honor Roll
A number of groups are deploying other strategies for depolarizing or building solidarity:
