Homegrown Rural Representation in Congress

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Ingroup Pride or Outgroup Resentment? Urban-Rural Emotions and Political Attitudes 23
5. The Racial Politics of Rural Resentment: An Examination of Black and White Rural Public Opinion 47
6. Why Does Place Matter More (Politically) to Rural People? Political Communication, Fomenting Place Resentment, and Urban Collective Narcissism 75
7. “American Exceptionalism” or “The Great Global Divider”? Urban-Rural Divides beyond the U.S. and Similar Countries 93
8. Safe Haven? Place, Faith, and Perceptions of Religion in Rural America 111
9. Exploring the Rural-Urban Health Divide: Place-Based Health Experiences and Attitudes 133
10. Carcerality in Context: The Relationship between Rurality, Punitiveness, and Perceptions of Local Criminal Justice Institutions 165
11. Is there a “rural environmental identity”? Characterizing differences between rural and urban perspectives on environmental protection 189
12. Context Counts: Economic Inequality within and between Rural and Urban Communities 213
13. Rural Americans’ Perceptions of Respect in American State Governments 235
14. Homegrown Rural Representation in Congress 257
15. How Rural Identity Affects Attitudes toward the News Media and Journalism 279
16. Leveraging Rural Identity to Revive Two-Party Politics in Rural America 301
17. Index