{"id":3626,"date":"2008-09-23T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/09\/23\/elections-2008-urban-rural-devide\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T15:55:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:55:59","slug":"elections-2008-urban-rural-devide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/09\/23\/elections-2008-urban-rural-devide\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Election(s): Urban rural divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/106\/310494800_f85ca78422.jpg?v=0\" height=\"270\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An essay in the Globe and Mail by John Duffy ran a few weeks ago but is worth reading if you didn&#8217;t see it as it explores the way the urban rural split has become the dominant political factor in both Canada and the United States. Perhaps more explicit down south, where big city mayor Rudy Giuliani\u00a0 (inexplicably) sneered at the very idea of cities (&#8220;San Francisssssssssco&#8221;) during his GOP convention speech and Sarah Palin talked of growing &#8220;good people&#8221; in small towns, we can see on Canadian electoral maps that cities vote differently up here as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080912.wcoessay0912\/BNStory\/specialComment\/home?cid=al_gam_mostview\">Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In the U.S. and Canadian elections now under way, the traditionally dominant political factors are giving way to a politics in which wedge issues such as John McCain&#8217;s &#8220;drill, baby, drill&#8221; and St&eacute;phane Dion&#8217;s Green Shift program are pitting city folk against high-consumption, low-density rural voters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Each country seems to be dismantling its traditional electoral structure &#8212; in the U.S., one built around race, and in Canada, organized around regionalism. In both countries, the major parties are now fighting their election campaigns primarily along the same urban-rural battle line. For the first time, something like a single North American election is happening. This new politics is likely to be with us for a long time to come.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sci-Fi New Urban Rural Interface&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonathanvlarocca\/\">Jonathan . Larocca<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essay in the Globe and Mail by John Duffy ran a few weeks ago but is worth reading if you didn&#8217;t see it as it explores the way the urban rural split has become the dominant political factor in both Canada and the United States. 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