Dan Shea on Rural Identity

Two Worlds, One Country

Dan Shea is a professor of Government at Colby College and the author of many books, most recently The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and The Disuniting of America. Dan talks campaign consulting in upstate New York, the largest survey of rural voters ever done, and why conspiracy theorists aren’t as common as you might think.

[3:30] Starting out incampaign consulting

[8:40] Rural didn’t used to equal Republican

[12:52] How rural voters think about the places they live

[21:35] Rural rabble rousers are not as prevalent as you think

More from Dan:

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-rural-voter/9780231211581

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