Rural America
Immigration enforcement is supplying a long‑standing economic market for prisoners
Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
Democrats have a working‑class voter problem that progressives like Abdul El‑Sayed are still struggling to solve
Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.
Rural high school students are more likely than city kids to get their diplomas, but they remain less likely to go to college
1 in 5 students in the US are living in rural areas.