Hello, it's Alyssa Malano, and I can't wait for you to read my new book, Sorry Not Sorry.

It's a collection of essays where I share my unapologetic thoughts on life, culture, activism, and motherhood.

You'll learn some things about me that I know you've never heard before

and share in my story as an activist.

This book is such a big part of my heart,

and so are you, and thank you for that.

Sorry not sorry is available now everywhere books are sold. Hi, I'm Melissa Molano. And this is Sorry Not Sorry. So, The Democratic Party used to view the rural voter as part of its base.

That shifted, with many attributing the shift to social, religious, and racial beliefs.

Our guests today argue that the reasons are quite different from what we believe.

Nick Jacobs and Dan Shay are professors of government at Colby College

and the authors of the rural voter, the politics of place, and the disunited of America.

Taking a look at election results over the past few decades,

it shows us a flashing warning side for Democrats

as the nation's urban rural divide has been

Democrats have increasingly lost support for rural America.

Licking County, like most rural counties in Ohio, votes Republican and most often by a substantial margin. In 2008

though Barack Obama narrowed that margin by several percentage points. That

happened in rural counties all over the country. This was the other story for Democrats in 2018.

On the House side, they won 40 seats, they won back control,

the suburbs kind of were on fire for them.

But on the Senate side, in places like Indiana,

in places like North Dakota, in places like rural Tennessee,

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