We went to the polls. We voted for change or not. We resisted or didn’t. And in the end, we remain divided.
One pundit I heard this morning said that the most profound and confounding divide in America is the rural-urban/suburban split. As a site begun after the 2016 elections and devoted to understanding the heartlands of rural America, I offer the following review of posts to get you up to speed if you’re just now turning to this complex landscape:
Poetry
Essays
What Goes Without Saying: Some Thoughts on Charlottesville
Why Don’t Country People Just Get Out?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Social Justice
Rural Soul by Sara Porter Keeling
Interviews
Crossing the Great Divide: An Interview with Arlie Russell Hochschild
Still Kinda in Kansas: Talking Politics with Robert Wuthnow
Book Reviews
The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America by Robert Wuthnow
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches from The Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior
Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society by Thomas Frank
Heartlands 