The Rural Blog

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. Links may expire, require subscription or go behind pay walls. Please send news and knowledge you think would be useful to benjy.hamm@uky.edu.

The Rural Blog

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Democrats who want rural voters to switch sides need to 'show up' and fight for rural communities

Disagreement, diversity and a look that 'reflects the face of America better' give the Midwest political power

Metric Media 'pink slime' news sent to Ohio voters backed losing effort to make abortion-rights measure harder to pass

Perceived Washington indifference towards rural South fuels support for Trump and Sanders

Koch brothers take pro-business cause to county election in Wisconsin's iron range, get off base

Female hopeful upset in Navajo presidential vote

Navajo Nation could elect first woman president on Tuesday

New York Congressional race could be referendum on fracking

Alaska newspapers endorse incumbent Sen. Murkowski as write-in candidate

Democrats face uphill battle in rural Midwest; voters mistakenly think stimulus did no good

Coal could be deciding factor in U.S. Senate race in Kentucky

Former Georgia governor looks to reverse 2002 mistake by focusing campaign on rural areas

Christian Science Monitor's online 'Patchwork Nation' redraws campaign map

Ohio governor: Rural Appalachian voters could determine winner of state's Democratic primary

Rural voters are pivotal but feel 'invisible' politically, Denver Post reports

Rural giving to presidential candidates scarce, but mostly Democratic