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The book was an attempt to sort out the arguments people started having about roughly 20% of the American electorate after 2016. The authors used the term 'rural voter' recently because, nationwide on average, these voters were increasingly voting similarly to one another. The book explores the reasons driving the move toward the Republican Party in rural communities across the country, focusing on economic anxiety, cultural precarity, and grievance towards government.
Nick and a pal wrote a whole dang book about rural voters. It's called The Rural Voter.
— Episode: Can Democrats win back rural voters?
Episode: Can Democrats win back rural voters?
The book was an attempt to sort out the arguments people started having about roughly 20% of the American electorate after 2016. The authors used the term 'rural voter' recently because, nationwide on average, these voters were increasingly voting similarly to one another. The book explores the reasons driving the move toward the Republican Party in rural communities across the country, focusing on economic anxiety, cultural precarity, and grievance towards government.
Nick and a pal wrote a whole dang book about rural voters. It's called The Rural Voter.
It was an attempt to try and sort out all the arguments people started having about roughly 20% of the American electorate after 2016.
We only use that term rural voter recently because on average nationwide, they increasingly are voting similar to one another.
The book he wrote with Dan Shea is the rural voter, the politics of place and the disuniting of America.