Our country’s divisions are numerous, but consistent in cause and effect. We have red and blue states, conservatives and liberals, makers and takers, achievers and receivers, but the starkest is rural ...

A growing body of work is showing that family life in rural areas is increasingly becoming more similar to family life in urban areas. 4,7,8 According to a Pew Report (2018), marriage rates in ...

The paper’s other main finding is that the urban-rural values divide remains even when one controls for age, gender, income, employment status, immigration status, and life satisfaction.

And they can profoundly reduce quality of life. We also found that if rural education levels were as high as in urban areas, this would eliminate almost half of the rural-urban life-expectancy gap.

Pop portrayals of LGBTQ Americans tend to feature urban gay life, from Ru Paul’s “Drag Race” and “ Queer Eye ” and “ Pose.” But not all gay people live in cities.

U.S. adults between the ages of 25 and 44 are eyeing small towns. "It’s been so much easier to connect with strangers and meet all sorts of people," says one 28-year-old who made the move.

Trump's appeal in rural America can't be explained just by people feeling "left behind." Our country's future depends on us bridging the rural-urban divide.

Rural queer folk went on to create other spaces that could exist beyond the imagined restraints of rural and urban life: gay country-western bars, square dances and clogging groups.

We also found that if rural education levels were as high as in urban areas, this would eliminate almost half of the rural-urban life-expectancy gap. Our data shows 65% of urban 60-year-olds were ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal ...