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COMMUNITY TYPE

Tractor Country

Characteristics

Mostly rural and remote smaller towns with older populations
Among the least diverse counties, with a 95 percent white population
Areas with much higher-than-average employment in the agriculture sector
Reliably Republican voting counties

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Community Type Demographics

Ethnicity

Presidential Election Results

2004

31%
Kerry

68%
Bush

2008

34%
Obama

64%
McCain

Representative Communities

Community Type Comparison

Percent Employed in Agriculture

20%
Tractor Country

7.2%
All Counties

Around the Nation

The Flavor of Tea Parties Around the U.S.

As Patchwork Nation has noted before, the composition of tea parties around the country varies by community type and is driven by a diverse set of issues that may -- or may not -- bring them together. In this Newshour Connect, we talked with three public media reporters to us tell us what makes the tea parties in their communities tick

Self-Employment Instead Of Unemployment

Oregon's unemployment rate is 10.5 percent -- one of the highest in the nation -- but not all areas are hard hit. OPB's Rural Economy Project explores the pockets of economic activity surrounded by areas of economic malaise. In one town, a mill closed in 2007 but the state ...

Tea Party Mapped: How Big Is It and Where Is It based?

If you turned to a cable news channel in recent weeks, you may have seen a large group of "tea party" protesters, signs in hand, expressing outrage over government tyranny. To get an understanding of how big the loosely affiliated movement is and where it's based, Patchwork Nation has ...

Who Are the Tea Party Faithful?

Using a collection of online directories from one of the biggest Tea Party groups, we have mapped and sorted a large number of members into the 12 Patchwork Nation county types. What we found are concentrations in particular places: agricultural "Tractor Country," the "Military Bastions" and "Mormon Outposts."

Looking at Winners, Losers in Federal Government Spending

Is your congressman bringing home the bacon? A breakdown by Patchwork Nation community types looked at where the government distributes money across U.S. counties. The money flow, project director Dante Chinni told The Rundown, has little to do with how residents feel about the government but a lot to ...