Rural Counties Across America Denied Self-Governance

There is a disturbing trend in America whereby rural citizens are being deprived of self-governance.  It is well documented in this piece by James Huffman of the Hoover Institution.

“The county by county map of the 2012 presidential election clearly portrays the irony and unfairness of a nation of predominantly red communities governed by a blue, urban, national majority. President Obama won 52 percent of the states and 51.4 percent of the popular vote, but only 20 percent of the counties. Yet, everyone in every one of those counties is subject to the will of distant majorities lacking any understanding of or stake in the local communities they control. It wasn’t supposed to be that way, and should not be that way, in our extended national republic.”