Blue Metros, Red States
The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States
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The Lincy Institute announces the release of Blue Metros, Red States: The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States, edited by UNLV faculty David F. Damore, Robert E. Lang, and Karen A. Danielsen, with contributions from William E. Brown, Jr., John Hudak, and Molly Reynolds. Blue Metros, Red States analyzes demographic trends, voting patterns, economic data, and the social characteristics of twenty-seven major metropolitan areas in thirteen swing states that will ultimately decide who is elected president in 2020 and which political party controls the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
The book locates the red/blue dividing line and assesses the electoral state of play in each swing state. This red/blue political line is rapidly shifting as suburbs urbanize and grow more demographically diverse.
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The battle for the political allegiance of the growing and thriving metropolitan areas of the Sunbelt will be one of the central stories of American politics in the 2020s. This comprehensive and insightful work offers the definitive field guide to the electoral battlefield that may tilt the competition between red and blue America for years to come. Anyone who wants to understand where U.S. politics is heading next should start here.
- Ron Brownstein, senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior political analyst for CNN
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All our talk about blue states and red states ignores the fact that few (if any) states are homogeneous. By focusing on the rise of progressive metropolitan areas within conservative states, Blue Metros, Red States makes an enormous contribution to our understanding of American politics. An essential book that also offers a timely warning about how rules and structures we take for granted are undermining our democracy.
- E. J. Dionne Jr., senior fellow, the Brookings Institution; author of Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save our Country
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Impressively detailed analysis of the increasingly fraught blue-red divide within thirteen swing states, how we got here, and where we are headed as conservatives try to keep the lid on a political and cultural pressure cooker of changing demographics, rapidly urbanizing suburbs, and underrepresented metro areas.
- Jill Lawrence, commentary editor and columnist, USA Today; author of The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock
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Blue Metros, Red States is a fresh look at a debate over demographics that had largely stagnated over the course of the past decade. Pivoting from the traditional focus on the racial and age gaps in America, the book instead thoroughly investigates America's yawning urban-rural divide. An absolute must-read for anyone interested in the future of American politics.
- Sean Trende, senior elections analyst, RealClearPolitics
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David F. Damore
David Damore is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies program.
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Robert E. Lang
Robert Lang holds the Lincy Endowed Chair in Urban Affairs in the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, UNLV, is executive director of Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute, and a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy program.
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Karen A. Danielsen
Karen Danielsen is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Leadership in the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, UNLV.
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William E. Brown, Jr.
William Brown, Jr. is the UNLV Director of Brookings Mountain West.
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John J. Hudak
John Hudak is deputy director of the Center for Effective Public Management and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
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Molly E. Reynolds
Molly Reynolds is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
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Special Thanks
The editors would like to extend a special thanks to Caitlin J. Saladino, Ashley LeClair, Jaewon Lim, Elaine Silverstone, Kelliann Beavers, Ember Smith, Eshaan Vakil, Madison Frazee-Bench, and many other colleagues and students who contributed to the publishing of this book.
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