If (or when) the coronavirus spreads beyond big metropolitan areas, there’s a chance it will reinforce small-town and rural hostilities toward big cities. ed_kilgore writes
Missouri shoppers pay little attention to coronavirus warning. Photo: Jamie Squire/Getty Images It’s well established by now that in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, Republicans and Democrats had significantly different reactions to the risks involved, with the former tending to believe that the news media and Democrats were exaggerating the dangers to hurt their beloved leader. That disconnect was naturally attributed to the president’s own dismissive attitude.
So far, the greatest clusters of the disease, and the most aggressive responses to it, have indeed been centered in a few large, Democratic-leaning metropolitan areas, including Seattle, New York, San Francisco, and Boston. At yesterday’s White House press briefing, Deborah Birx, the administration’s response coordinator, said half of the nation’s cases so far are located in just 10 counties.
There’s a long history of conservatives demonizing the cities as sources of disease to threaten the ‘pure heartland,’” says Geoffrey Kabaservice, the director of political studies at the libertarian Niskanen Center and the author of Rule and Ruin, a history of the modern Republican Party. “That’s an old theme. So that could be how it goes down.”
Eva Kassens-Noor, a professor in the global-urban-studies program at Michigan State University, studied urban/rural patterns in the 1918 flu pandemic in India. Her research found that mortality was much greater in urban places above a certain density level than in rural places below it. She believes that U.S.
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