As a lifelong resident of rural America, I have grown accustomed to the media periodically sending journalists out to low-population areas to discover what is wrong with us, particularly after elections that Republicans win. In Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy, political scientists Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown continue the tradition, climbing down from their increasingly shaky ivory tower to travel across America and learn why rural Americans don’t like them. This unabashedly biased book has no broader conception of “democracy” than bare majoritarianism, and its only concern is that the “divide” favors Republicans.