Coronavirus is dividing blue cities from their red states
Coronavirus is dividing blue cities from their red states
Analysis by Ronald Brownstein
Updated 7:06 PM ET, Wed April 1, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/politics/red-states-blue-cities-coronavirus/index.html
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Rural areas are less worried
Though concern is rising about the outbreak in all areas of the country, the share of rural residents who say they are "very worried" about contracting the disease still lagged well behind the number in urban and suburban areas in an ABC/Washington Post Poll released last week.
Across many states with Republican governors, these diverging perspectives have contributed to sharp splits between the states' policies and those adopted by the largest population centers.
In recent days, cities including Miami, Birmingham, Nashville, Atlanta, Jackson (Mississippi), Houston, Dallas, Austin, St. Louis, Phoenix and Tucson adopted complete stay-at-home orders or other tight restrictions on movement and economic activity. But in each case, their state governments -- Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Missouri and Arizona -- resisted comparable statewide limits.
That put these Republican governors in contrast not only with the many Democratic governors who issued sweeping statewide restrictions, but the few GOP governors -- including in Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia -- who did so as well.
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