NCPR’s Jonathan Brown writes:<\/p>\n
In post-election analysis of voting trends, a lot of pundits are taking a second look at rural America. And the results aren\u2019t always pretty. In the Sunday New York Times<\/em>, columnist Frank Rich wrote:<\/p>\n Those occasional counties that tilted more Republican tended to be not only the least diverse, but also the most rural, least educated and slowest-growing in population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If Rich\u2019s tone sounds superior, that\u2019s because it is. He\u2019s using the term “rural” as a broad brush to paint regions like the North Country (and the Appalachians, the South and large swaths of Middle America and the Rocky mountain West as a monolithic voting bloc).<\/p>\n The thrust of Rich’s column is neatly summed up by the pull quote in the Times <\/em>print edition: “America’s all-white party is still in denial.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n