- The growing rural-urban divide in the United States is predominantly driven by white Americans, with rural people of color differing much less, if at all, from their urban counterparts in voting behavior or policy attitudes https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/06/growing-rural-urban-divide-exists-only-among-white-americans 48 comments science
- Access to electricity improves across states, the urban-rural divide remains: NFHS-5 https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/energy/access-to-electricity-improves-across-states-urban-rural-divide-remains-nfhs-5-74890 2 comments india
- How Urban Or Rural Is Your State? And What Does That Mean For The 2020 Election? https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-urban-or-rural-is-your-state-and-what-does-that-mean-for-the-2020-election/ 4 comments politics
- Adults living in rural areas of the United States have a 19% higher risk of developing heart failure compared to their urban counterparts, and Black men living in rural areas have an especially higher risk -- 34%, https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2023/risk-developing-heart-failure-much-higher-us-adults-living-rural-areas-vs-urban 203 comments science
- Age-adjusted motor vehicle traffic death rates almost double in rural areas versus urban areas, CDC states https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6825a4.htm?s_cid=mm6825a4_w&deliveryname=uscdc_921-dm3242 5 comments science
- ‘Brand Gujarat’ leaves rural areas smarting. The State’s focus on urban infrastructure has drawn investment but created islands of development. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/brand-gujarat-leaves-rural-areas-smarting/article6705181.ece 3 comments india
- Having failed spectacularly to create a 51st state, Colorado's rural counties will now ask urban voters to disenfranchise themselves. http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20131106/news01/311060103/secession-movement-changes-course-preaches-unity 37 comments politics
- Hindutva Ban on Beef for Big Cats in Zoo is Last Straw for Assam’s Anti-Caste Activists: Once a ‘silent evil’ in the state, casteism is now so openly prevalent that the people of both rural and multicultural urban areas feel the oppression http://thewire.in/caste/hindutva-beef-ban-assam-zoo-anti-caste-activists 42 comments india
- The United States is coming to resemble two countries, one rural and one urban. What happens when they go to war? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/red-state-blue-city/513857/ 92 comments politics
- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, in a move which favors rural over urban areas, wants to eliminate the gas tax and use a sales tax increase to fund roads. In this move, Virginia would be the only state in the country which doesn't use gas taxes to fund roads. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/mcdonnell-proposes-eliminating-virginias-gas-tax/2013/01/08/7858ba96-59c8-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html?hpid=z3 4 comments politics
- "Just like the Electoral College, the Senate skews toward the lightly populated states. . . .And in the case of an issue with a clear, urban-rural divide like gun control, the numbers are stacked against the wishes of city and suburb dwellers. . ." http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/04/18/177799987/historically-speaking-no-surprise-in-senate-gun-control-vote 87 comments politics
- (Reuters) - China unveiled sweeping tax reforms on Tuesday to make wealthy state-owned firms, property speculators and the rich pay more to narrow a yawning gap between an urban elite and hundreds of millions of rural poor. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/05/us-china-economy-reform-idusbre9140ql20130205 76 comments worldnews
- Nearly 35 percent of rural counties in the United States are experiencing protracted and significant population loss. In all 746 counties representing 24 percent of all U.S. counties are depopulating and 91 percent of them are rural. In contrast, just nine percent of urban counties are depopulating. https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/rural-depopulation 34 comments science
- Bernie Sanders: “Coming from a rural state, I think I can communicate with folks coming from urban states, where guns mean different things than they do in Vermont, where [they are] used for hunting. That’s where we have to go. We don’t have to argue with each other and yell at each other...” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-guns_55b54b5fe4b0a13f9d18e1a5 10 comments politics
- How a trail in rural Oregon became a target of far-right extremism—To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail. https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.7/north-extremism-how-a-trail-in-rural-oregon-became-a-target-of-far-right-extremism 42 comments moderatepolitics
- Bernie Sanders on Getting Past Yelling About Guns: "Coming from a rural state I think I can communicate with folks from urban states where guns mean very different things," Sanders said. "We don't have to yell at each other." http://progressive.org/news/2015/10/188347/bernie-sanders-getting-past-yelling-about-guns 2313 comments politics
- Third COVID-19 wave hit rural America especially hard. Rural counties saw 2.4 times more COVID-19 infections per capita compared to urban areas between July 1 and Aug. 31, 2021, when the delta variant surged across the United States. Infections increased much faster in low-vaccination areas. https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/02/delta-variant-of-covid-19-hit-rural-america-especially-hard.html 47 comments science