WI may be a state where rural whites are more Democratic than suburban whites.
Now I'm wondering what other states we can think of where rural whites are more Dem than suburban whites. The only slam-dunk cases that come to mind are New Hampshire (obviously) and probably Massachusetts, on the strength of Western MA (and the fact that most of the rest of the state really can't be called rural).
I'd be willing to say New England as a whole, though I could be wrong about Maine. Maybe parts of the Southwest, for certain definitions of 'rural'?
Rural Maine is less democratic than Portland, and similarly Burlington is even stronger Dem than the rest of Vermont.I'm thinking of Windham County as opposed to Rutland here because that's the part of Vermont I grew up in, but I suppose there are parts of Vermont considerably more rural even than Windham County, it being Vermont and all.
It's not that rural, say, Arizona is particularly Democratic, I just wonder if it's not
more Democratic even among whites than
suburban Arizona.
Possibly, depending on what qualifies as rural.
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Oh, Minnesota, perhaps! Think about Bachmann's district as compared to the Iron Range.
