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30 May, 201718 April, 2017

Notes from the urban/rural divide: Yes, there are environmentalists here

A farm
Posted in environmental issues by s.e. smith

Contrary to popular belief, some rural Americans are extremely invested in environmental protection and conserving resources for future generaitons.

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24 May, 201725 May, 2017

Places other than New York exist, and people do things in them

The New York skyline.
Posted in commentary by s.e. smith

New York elitism is a very ugly look. Ditch it, just in time for summer!

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4 May, 201713 March, 2017

Notes from the urban/rural divide: Trucks

A blue truck.
Posted in commentary by s.e. smith

The truck has become an enduring symbol of rural life, but sometimes a truck is just a truck, no matter what conservatives think.

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23 March, 201729 March, 2017

Notes from the urban/rural divide: Yes, there are liberals here

An abandoned barn in a corn field.
Posted in politics by s.e. smith

Look, I don’t know how else to say this: Please stop saying that rural America is uniformly conservative.

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28 February, 201711 January, 2017

Notes from the urban/rural divide: Government funding

A rural road on an overcast day.
Posted in economy, politics by s.e. smith

17 percent of America lives in rural communities, who are often maligned by those in urban and suburban areas. Questions of government funding can be a particularly sore point.

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18 February, 201726 December, 2016

Notes from the urban/rural divide: Heat

A roaring wood stove.
Posted in politics by s.e. smith

Heat feels like a fundamental basic human need, and right, as it should: But the world of heat and heating can be a fraught place for rural Americans.

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21 November, 201615 November, 2016

Notes from the urban/rural underground: Yes, there are queer people here

Cows standing in a barn.
Posted in LGBQT by s.e. smith

There’s a large LGBQT rural population, but it’s largely erased in a narrative that suggests queerness only exists in cities. That serves to further isolate rural queers.

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23 August, 20163 June, 2016

Notes from the rural/urban divide: Abortion

A graffito of a bishop and a person with a uterus struggling for control of a key.
Posted in social justice by s.e. smith

The story of abortion access in rural communities can turn into an elaborate, time-consuming saga.

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4 April, 201613 January, 2016

Are you done smugly mocking rural communities yet?

Cows grazing in a field
Posted in commentary by s.e. smith

When members of a sketchy militia took over the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in January, I braced myself for one of the inevitable outcomes: People on social media smugly talking about rural hicks and their inability to grasp the nuance of fine social issues. These kinds of things — takeovers of federal land in the name […]

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17 December, 201524 September, 2015

The suburban resistance to housing density

A thatched row house in Hampshire England.
Posted in commentary by s.e. smith

One thing is integral to the American Dream: Buying a home. It may not necessarily be the right financial choice for a given family or circumstance, but it’s hard to feel like one has truly arrived, truly become a grownup, unless one has bought a home. ‘Buying’ is a figurative term in the era of […]

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