Rural-Urban Cultural Divide
A Rural-Urban Cultural Divide is a cultural divide between an urban region and a rural region.
References
2017a
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/19/trump-exploited-the-cultural-divide-not-economic-unfairness
- QUOTE: We’ve never really bought that explanation, in part because Trump voters on average were richer than Hillary Clinton voters. Now there is powerful evidence of a disagreeable truth: Trump’s base was far more motivated by cultural provincialism and xenophobia than by economic need.
The Post reports that the “popular explanations of the rural-urban divide appear to overstate the influence of declining economic outcomes in driving rural America’s support for Trump. The survey responses, along with follow-up interviews and focus groups in rural Ohio, bring into view a portrait of a split that is tied more to social identity than to economic experience.” Economic dislocation does not seem to have been the main factor in the election:
- QUOTE: We’ve never really bought that explanation, in part because Trump voters on average were richer than Hillary Clinton voters. Now there is powerful evidence of a disagreeable truth: Trump’s base was far more motivated by cultural provincialism and xenophobia than by economic need.
2017b
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/rural-america/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.c7cab5e7ce5f
- QUOTE: America’s cultural divide runs deep. While rural and urban Americans share some economic challenges, they frequently diverge on questions of culture and values. On few issues are they more at odds than immigration. ...
...“Being from a rural area, everyone looks out for each other,” said Ryan Lawson, who grew up in northern Wisconsin. “People, in my experience, in cities are not as compassionate toward their neighbor as people in rural parts.” ...
- QUOTE: America’s cultural divide runs deep. While rural and urban Americans share some economic challenges, they frequently diverge on questions of culture and values. On few issues are they more at odds than immigration. ...
2010
- (Knight & Gunatilaka, 2010) ⇒ John Knight, and Ramani Gunatilaka. (2010). “The Rural–urban Divide in China: Income But Not Happiness?. ” The Journal of Development Studies 46, no. 3
- ABSTRACT: The paper presents subjective well-being functions for urban and rural China, based on a national household survey for 2002. Whereas the vast income disparity between urban and rural households is confirmed, it is found that, remarkably, rural households report higher subjective well-being than do their richer urban counterparts. A decomposition analysis explores the reasons for this reversal. It finds that there are many determinants of happiness other than absolute income, and that the determinants differ in the two sectors. An explanation for the puzzle is advanced in terms of relative concepts, income inequalities, orbits of comparison, and degrees of insecurity. Positive and normative implications are discussed.