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When you ignore domestic politics entirely I can see how it would look that way. But there is a very real difference in policy between rural Alabama and Chicag
by shigawire 3y ago
When you ignore domestic politics entirely I can see how it would look that way.
But there is a very real difference in policy between rural Alabama and Chicago. In no small part because of different parties exercising control in those localities.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> But there is a very real difference in policy between rural Alabama and Chicago. I believe this difference exist. But I attribute it mostly to "rural" vs. "urban" part - and for far enough places, also to difference in cultures between the two locations. Rural Alabama has a different lifestyle, different market, different pressing problems than urban Chicago, different individual needs - which may result in people in those two locations overall promoting opposite policies. How well these differences overlap with with Dem/Rep or left/right belief clusters is, I think, mostly incidental.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoI think that what you said about the causes of difference is true, but that doesn't mean the party affiliation of urban vs rural voters is incidental. The parties, to the degree they do differ, do position themselves on opposite sides of the urban vs rural divide. https://engaging-data.com/election-population-density/ https://engaging-data.com/election-population-density/