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Kotkin on Medved Show: How Geography Affects U.S. Politics

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By: Michael Medved

On: The Michael MedHead Show

Joel Kotkin, Professor of Urban Studies at Chapman University joins the program to discuss how geography is affecting U.S. elections and what we should expect in the future, based on demographic changes.

“With red states gaining population and blue states losing population, it looks like the geography of changing demographics will benefit the Republicans…”

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Battlefield ‘Burbs

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America’s political culture has been shaped by its rural and urban environments, each of which tends to be dominated by one party. Urban Republicans are now as rare as rural Democrats.

Yet the political future of the country lies in the suburban and exurban rings that dominate every metropolitan region. These voters are made up predominately neither of woke city hipsters nor gun-toting rubes, the stereotypes that dominate our competing cultural memes. The suburbs are the last contestable geography in the country. Read more