In Praise of “Solid B" Cities with Halina Bennet
About this episode
The episode discusses the contrast between major urban centers and rural areas in America, featuring insights from guest Halina Bennet.
There are the superstar cities that act as the seedbeds of American cultural cosmopolitanism and the great engines of blue America's knowledge economy: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle etc. These are the cities that we obsess over and that typically provide the grist for this podcast. And countering them, of course, is the red America of small towns and rural areas that powered the rise of Trump and MAGA. Both the urban powerhouses and the rural heartland receive more th...
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