Contrary to popular belief, some rural Americans are extremely invested in environmental protection and conserving resources for future generaitons.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Yes, there are environmentalists here
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Places other than New York exist, and people do things in them
New York elitism is a very ugly look. Ditch it, just in time for summer!
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Trucks
The truck has become an enduring symbol of rural life, but sometimes a truck is just a truck, no matter what conservatives think.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Yes, there are liberals here
Look, I don’t know how else to say this: Please stop saying that rural America is uniformly conservative.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Government funding
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.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Heat
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.
Notes from the urban/rural underground: Yes, there are queer people here
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.
Notes from the rural/urban divide: Abortion
The story of abortion access in rural communities can turn into an elaborate, time-consuming saga.
Are you done smugly mocking rural communities yet?
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 […]
The suburban resistance to housing density
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 […]