" ... urban, industrial, and politically very liberal; the other rural, with smaller cities and towns, traditional beliefs about family and morality, and a moderate-to-conservative political outlook ... People in the rural center will not take kindly to this leftward tilt [of the Democratic Party] and will be in continual tension with other America."
--Pete DuPont, in a Wall Street Journal column in 2000, the governor of Delaware from 1977 through 1985 and a candidate for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.
