This article documents the diversity of political attitudes and voting patterns along the urban-
rural continuum of the United States. We find that America's rural and urban interface, in …

Americans' relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public
opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time lows, with only one in five …

At the intersection of the growing national conversation about our food system and the long-
running debate about our government's role in society is the complex farm bill. American …

This paper examines individual and aggregate data to document the growing political
diversity in rural America. This political diversity is evident in the various economies within …

Tremendous transformation marks the last three decades of American politics, and nowhere
has this change been as distinctive and penetrating as in the American South. After 120 …

This article chronicles and analyzes the changing state of party affiliation in the American
South from the 1990s to the present. Party identification (PID) is examined with data from …

We take a new look at electoral sectionalism and dynamic nationalization in presidential
elections. We treat this problem as one of synchronism of electoral cycles, which we …

Objective We empirically demonstrate that the long‐held political distinction between the
Deep South and the Peripheral South persists to this day. Methods Data from the …

Thousands of studies have examined party competition in the American states, finding
significant consequences for voter turnout, policy adoptions, and more. Long-term patterns …

In the wake of Shelby County v. Holder and the January 6 Capitol insurrection, changes to
election laws, policies, and especially access to voting have become a key political …