{"id":12738,"date":"2020-11-25T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12738"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:18:11","slug":"the-rural-way-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-rural-way-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rural Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost&nbsp;every national Election Night reveals the same old red\/blue map. The country geographically is a sea of red. The coasts and small areas along the southern border and around the Great Lakes remain blue atolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet when the maps are recalibrated for population rather than area, the blue areas blow up, expanding to smother half the country \u2014 a graphical metaphor for the dominant cultural influence of city over country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideological differences are now being recalibrated as rural-urban on issues from guns and abortion to taxes and foreign policy. Red\/conservative is often synonymous with small-town and rural. Blue\/progressive is equivalent to urban\/suburban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gone are the old New Deal Democratic coalitions of New England and the South, or the 19th- and mid-20th-century Republican alliances between the farm belt and the mid-Atlantic states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/11\/the-rural-way\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Almost&nbsp;every national Election Night reveals the same old red\/blue map. The country geographically is a sea of red. The coasts and small areas along the southern border and around the Great Lakes remain blue atolls. Yet when the maps are recalibrated for population rather than area, the blue areas [&hellip;]<\/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_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3js","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9772,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-and-the-american-divide\/","url_meta":{"origin":12738,"position":0},"title":"Trump and the American Divide","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"How a lifelong New Yorker became tribune of the rustics and deplorables By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/City Journal Winter 2017 At 7 AM in California\u2019s rural Central Valley, not long before the recent presidential election, I stopped to talk with an elderly irrigator on the shared border alleyway of my farm.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Clintons&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Clintons","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-clintons\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9902,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-the-central-valley-votes-more-conservative\/","url_meta":{"origin":12738,"position":1},"title":"Why the Central Valley votes more conservative","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ San Francisco Chronicle Photo: Andrew Harrer, Bloomberg Voters living in 85 percent of the country preferred Donald Trump, but he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. 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