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What Unites and Divides Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities
Broad agreement across community types that rural areas get less than their fair share of federal dollars
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- What Unites and Divides Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities
- Key demographic trends are playing out differently across urban, suburban and rural counties
- The urban-suburban-rural divide extends to politics and perspectives
- Many in urban, suburban and rural areas are longtime residents
- Poverty increased more sharply in suburbs than in urban and rural counties
- Wide educational divide among rural residents in optimism about their financial future
- Broad agreement across community types that rural areas get less than their fair share of federal dollars
- Many say people in other types of communities don’t share their values
- Rural Americans have warmer views of Donald Trump
- Urban dwellers place a higher premium on racial and ethnic diversity
- Concerns about drug addiction are greater among adults without a college degree
- About one-in-five adults have always lived in or near the community where they grew up
- About one-in-six residents in urban, suburban and rural communities feel very attached to their local community
- Among those who say they’d like to move, urban residents most likely to choose a different type of community
- Four-in-ten rural residents know all or most of their neighbors; shares are smaller in urban, suburban areas
- Key demographic trends are playing out differently across urban, suburban and rural counties