Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by s1artibartfast on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:42PM
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I think that what you said about the causes of difference is true, but that doesn't mean the party affiliation of urban vs rural voters is incidental.
The parties, to the degree they do differ, do position themselves on opposite sides of the urban vs rural divide.
I believe this difference exist. But I attribute it mostly to "rural" vs. "urban" part - and for far enough places, also to difference in cultures between the two locations. Rural Alabama has a different lifestyle, different market, different pressing problems than urban Chicago, different individual needs - which may result in people in those two locations overall promoting opposite policies.
How well these differences overlap with with Dem/Rep or left/right belief clusters is, I think, mostly incidental.