With the onset of the Great Depression, the United States appeared on the verge of political revolt in rural areas. For half a century, rural people had felt increasingly marginalized by changes in American society and the economy and ignored by political leaders. A farm crisis in the 1920s inflicted further pain. By 1933, with […]
Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown
Suzanne Mettler is the John L. Senior Chair of American Institutions in the government department at Cornell University. Trevor E. Brown is a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and an incoming assistant professor at the University of Oregon. They are coauthors of Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy.
