Urban–rural polarization grows in Virginia election

Rural Virginia has trended Republican in the past two decades, and the statewide election this week underlined its political divergence from the state’s metropolitan areas, said the Daily Yonder. The Republican candidate for governor, Ed Gillespie, won 72 percent of the vote in Virginia’s most remote counties, only 2 points less than President Trump a… » Read More

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