{"id":4150,"date":"2018-08-01T01:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T01:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/opinion-the-maps-that-show-that-city-vs-country-is-not-our-political-fault-line-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T01:53:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T01:53:40","slug":"opinion-the-maps-that-show-that-city-vs-country-is-not-our-political-fault-line-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/opinion-the-maps-that-show-that-city-vs-country-is-not-our-political-fault-line-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Huh. Maybe?<\/p>\n

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Look at county-level maps of almost any closely contested presidential race in our history, and you see much the same fault lines: the swaths of the country first colonized by the early Puritans and their descendants \u2014 Yankeedom \u2014 tend to vote as one, and against the party in favor in the sections first colonized by the culture laid down by the Barbados slave lords who founded Charleston, S.C., or the Scots-Irish frontiersmen who swept down the Appalachian highlands and on into the Hill Country of Texas, Oklahoma and the southern tiers of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.<\/p>\n

The Quaker-founded Midlands, the swing region of American politics that makes up a great swath of the heartland, has often been the physical and political buffer between rival regional coalitions, its pluralistic, community-oriented culture at peace neither with the Yankee\u2019s utopian drive to engineer social improvements nor Southern culture\u2019s emphasis on individual freedom above all else. It played the kingmaker\u2019s role again in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/30\/opinion\/urban-rural-united-states-regions-midterms.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huh. Maybe? Look at county-level maps of almost any closely contested presidential race in our history, and you see much the same fault lines: the swaths of the country first colonized by the early Puritans and their descendants \u2014 Yankeedom \u2014 tend to vote as one, and against the party in favor in the sections […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-14W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}