What Dollar Stores Tell Us About Electoral Politics

Putnam, Lara and Perez-Putnam, Gabriel (2019) What Dollar Stores Tell Us About Electoral Politics. Washington Monthly. ISSN 0043-0633

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This essay uses SNAP-authorized dollar stores per district as an indicator of the intersection of rurality and hardship. The authors show that dollar store counts create congressional district clusters that are more socio-economically homogenous than classification based on geographic density does. Up until 2016, the authors find, districts with more dollar stores had been swinging towards the Republican Party, a trend that culminated with the election of Donald Trump. But in the 2018 midterms, mid-to high dollar store districts swung as sharply towards the Democrats as did low dollar store districts.

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Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Creators/Authors:	Creators Email Pitt Username ORCID Putnam, Lara LEP12@pitt.edu lep12 0000-0002-5752-8127 Perez-Putnam, Gabriel
Date:	9 March 2019
Date Type:	Publication
Journal or Publication Title:	Washington Monthly
Schools and Programs:	Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > History
Refereed:	No
Uncontrolled Keywords:	democracy, dollar stores, elections, rural America, suburbs, Donald Trump, 2018 midterms
ISSN:	0043-0633
Official URL:	https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/03/09/what-doll...
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2020 19:20
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2020 19:20
URI:	http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/36080

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