Urban–rural political divide

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In political science, the urban–rural political divide is a phenomenon in which predominantly urban areas and predominantly rural areas within a country have sharply diverging political views. It is a form of political polarization. Typically, urban areas exhibit more liberal, left-wing, secular, progressive, cosmopolitan, and/or multiculturalist political attitudes, while rural areas exhibit more conservative, right-wing, religious, and/or nationalist/populist political attitudes, though India is a notable exception where the reverse happens. An urban–rural political divide has been observed worldwide in many nations including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Political divisions between urban and rural areas have been noted by political scientists and journalists to have intensified in the 21st century, and in particular since the Great Recession...

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