The political divide between rural and urban America is more cultural than it is economic, rooted in rural residents’ deep misgivings about the nation’s rapidly changing demographics, their ...

The plight of rural philanthropy is a perennial story: Small towns never seem to get their rightful share of national philanthropic spending. And when the spotlight comes — as it did in November 2016 ...

The federal researchers compared NCM rates of prime working-age adults in two three-year periods: 1999 to 2001, and 2017 to 2019. In 1999, the NCM rate in 25- to 54-year-olds in rural areas was 6 ...

Rural resentment has become a central fact of American politics — in particular, a pillar of support for the rise of right-wing extremism. As the Republican Party has moved ever further into ...

Growth in some places means population loss in others. More than half of the state's counties lost people between the 2010 and 2020 census surveys. All of them are rural.

The rural-urban political divide. The narrative is over-simplified and makes three critical errors. First, the typical coverage fails to acknowledge the nuances that exist within our political ...

Rural and urban Tennesseans have more in common than you think. Invest in uniting them. Too many progressive politicians have written off the South, especially rural communities.