The Urban-Rural Political Divide

 

THE URBAN-RURAL POLITICAL DIVIDE: 

 

The urban-rural divide goes back *at least* to the 1930s, and has been consistent up to the present. I've documented the New Deal in Pennsylvania. The Dem vote was entirely in the cities, and the GOP controlled the countryside, as it does to this day. 

 

Also, *throughout* the 1930s the rural GOP vote climbed continuously and steadily without break to record numbers by 1940 and beyond.

The NEW DEAL triumphed in Penn., however, because the electoral universe expanded greatly in the Democratic direction by the urban vote. So, this divide is going on 100 years old, and isn't due to recent developments. See my work on the subject:

 

 

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