From the Publisher: The untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided.
America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are …

Questions have been raised in recent years about the extent to which the nation is
segregated by the political preferences of its electorate. Some have argued that internal …

" Reese's masterful study sheds new light on the contemporary welfare backlash by
reconstructing the dynamics of an earlier wave of attacks on welfare mothers half a century …

Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey's journey has taken her from talk show queen to-as
Time Magazine has asserted-" one of the most important figures in popular culture." Through …

In political science, urban politics is a well-established subfield. And more recently,
suburban political behavior has received a fair amount of attention (Gainsborough 2001; …

Abstract “Geographic polarization”, the spatial concentration of “like” voting behavior, is a
phenomenon closely related to “partisan polarization”, the intensification of diametrically …

In recent years, scholars have argued that the ability of people to choose which channel they
want to watch means that television news is just preaching to the choir, and doesn't change …

There has been recent attention to the political divide between urban and rural voters in the
United States. It is possible that as rural and urban voting behavior has diverged, this has …

Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs examines racial and ethnic politics outside
traditional urban contexts and questions the standard theories we use to understand mobility …

This study explores how spatial characteristics commonly associated with suburban sprawl
(including density, reliance on the automobile, neighborhood age, and commuting patterns) …