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According to the New York Times, the 2016 election \u201chighlighted a growing rural-urban split.\u201d So, on this episode of BackStory, Brian, Ed and Nathan look at what happens when urban and rural Americans collide.
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\nThey\u2019ll tell the story of one coastal couple\u2019s proposal to make part of the Great Plains a vast nature preserve and how it wasn\u2019t received too kindly by the residents of those states. They\u2019ll look at how attitudes towards small town voters shaped American politics in the 1920s. Finally, they\u2019ll explore the urban/rural divide during the Founding Era, when city slicker Alexander Hamilton challenged Thomas Jefferson\u2019s vision of a country composed of humble yeoman farmers.
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