Dissent | Princeton University Press
Mettler and Brown argue that framing contemporary politics as a conflict between coastal elites and the heartland, or red states versus blue states, overlooks how the rural-urban political divide “runs throughout the nation, fracturing nearly every state and permeating even down-ballot elections”…. The rural-urban divide, as Mettler and Brown put it, is “fueling polarization, deepening political dysfunction, and threatening democracy itself.”