About That Rural/Urban Divide...
Sheila Kennedy writes:
I have frequently written about the multiple ways Indiana’s gerrymandering has harmed the state. For one thing, it has empowered rural voters over urban ones. Republicans in our legislature have married slices of urban areas to larger rural ones, confident that their strength lies in the less-populated portions of the state. In the past, that confidence has been bolstered by the failure of Democrats to contest many of those rural districts.
That is changing, thanks to a movement called the Indiana Rural Summit…
