Fascinating essay, Will. I appreciate the update to "The Density Divide," and I also appreciate the shoutout to Peirce (which is spelled "Peirce" and pronounced "purse," BTW). I'm a Peirce scholar and have published on abduction.
This is part of the global puzzle (less evident in the US until relatively recently) of the propensity of poor rural voters to vote for conservative parties that act in the interests of the (mostly urban) rich. I remember reading a paper about the French peasantry in C19 which focused on selective migration as the key explanation, but I can't find it now.
Fascinating essay, Will. I appreciate the update to "The Density Divide," and I also appreciate the shoutout to Peirce (which is spelled "Peirce" and pronounced "purse," BTW). I'm a Peirce scholar and have published on abduction.
Clayton Nall has also done some research relevant to this: http://www.nallresearch.com/research.html
This is part of the global puzzle (less evident in the US until relatively recently) of the propensity of poor rural voters to vote for conservative parties that act in the interests of the (mostly urban) rich. I remember reading a paper about the French peasantry in C19 which focused on selective migration as the key explanation, but I can't find it now.