Friday, January 26, 2024

Some of the best rural discourse happens 'on the front porch.' Reimagine Rural series features book authors.


This week Tony Pipa from Reimagine Rural and Brent Orrell of the American Enterprise Institute kicked off their new "on the front porch" conversations with authors of recent books on rural America.

The first discussion was with Nick Jacobs of Colby College, whose recent book with Dan Shea, The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America, uses comprehensive data to examine how the deep sense of civic pride among rural citizens collides with increasingly nationalized policy and political concerns. Watch the YouTube recording here.

Future "Front Porch" sessions are on:

To hear more about struggles and triumphs in rural America, give Brookings' podcast, "Reimagine Rural" a listen. The podcast features Pipa traveling through rural America -- from Shamokin, Pennslyvania, to Thomas and Davis, West Virginia, and across to Globe, Arizona. Pipa explores small-town challenges with residents who are living it. Throughout these conversations, Pipa examines the ways rural residents are reinventing their towns.

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