During a decade of presidential leadership favoring federal withdrawal from state and local affairs, what insights does the congressional record offer on the voting patterns of rural representatives on programs of interest to small‐town America?
The significant growth in nonmetropolitan population experienced during the 1970s was a demographic oddity we are not likely to experience again. The population‐growth patterns of the 1980s resembled trends more characteristic of the 20th century. The danger of a return to the malapportionment of the pre‐1960s era is slim indeed. As the U.S. population continues to “metropolitanize,” we should consider limited relaxation of the equal population principal in redrawing congressional district lines.
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