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Item 1985 Minnesota Citizen Opinions on Public Education and Educational Reform.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1985) Craig, William J.; Samaranayaka, KumarasiriItem A Case of Misunderstood Identity: The Role of Rural Identity in Contemporary American Mass Politics(2021-08) Lunz Trujillo, KristinWhy do rural individuals tend to be more right-wing in the contemporary U.S.? I answer this question by treating rurality as a social identity – a psychological attachment to rural or small-town life that encompasses a particular set of values and worldview. Previous studies on rural identity by scholars such as Katherine Cramer or Arlie Hochschild argue that rural areas’ turn to the right – particularly to right-wing populism - is rooted in socioeconomic class-based concerns and anti-urban resentment. However, using national experimental and survey data, in contrast to the qualitative and ethnographic approaches typically used, I find that rural identifiers are not more likely to be lower- or working-class individuals or to express economic concerns. Further, rural social identity does not significantly differ between racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. In other words, politically speaking the white working class does not equal rural identity, something often and nearly automatically assumed in scholarly and popular accounts. Instead, I argue that the turn to the right has been due to rural identifiers’ intermediate status in the societal status hierarchy. Rural areas perceive a group status-based threat from two different out-groups, which map onto definitions of right-wing populism. The first out-group is experts and intellectuals, who rural residents believe favor lower-status groups, such as immigrants – a second out-group - allowing them to cut in line ahead of rural Americans to gain social, economic and political status. These two out-groups (intellectuals/experts and immigrants) are more likely to be urban residents but not necessarily, complicating the idea of anti-urban resentment being the primary feature of rural identity. In this work, I rely on several sources of quantitative data, including original survey data and experiments collected over three years, as well as data from the ANES (American National Election Studies), the CCES (Cooperative Congressional Election Studies), and county-level data.Item City Examines Itself: The 1974 Duluth Attitude Survey. Report N0. 3: Miscellaneous Letters and Clippings.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota; University of Minnesota, Duluth; and City Government of Duluth., 1975) Krossner, William J.Item City Examines Itself: The 1974 Duluth Attitude Survey. Report No. 2: Detailed Statistical Analysis.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota; University of Minnesota, Duluth; and City Government of Duluth., 1975) Krossner, William J.Item City Examines Itself: The Duluth Attitude Survey. Report No. 1.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota; University of Minnesota, Duluth; and City Government of Duluth., 1975) Krossner, William J.Item It’s All Under Control: The Conditional Effects of Threat on Political Behavior(2018-06) Smith, BriannaPast research in political science finds contradictory effects of threat on political behavior. Some researchers find that threatening events of statements increase engagement with politics. Other researchers, meanwhile, find that threat can lead to disengagement. Meanwhile, threat may either increase political opinion polarization or general conservatism, depending on the study. In my dissertation, I identify perceived control over threat as the key factor which predicts which effect threat will have on political behavior. Using both experimental and observational data, I show that preventable (high control) threat increases political engagement, while also increasing political polarization. Inevitable (low control) threat decreases political engagement, while also increasing support for maintaining the status quo (and preventing change). Ultimately, both kinds of threat may have negative consequences for democracy, either by encouraging more fervent political extremism or by dissuading people from getting involved in politics at all.Item Minnesota Citizen Attitudes Towards Public Education.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1985) Craig, William J.; Peterson, ShaneItem Suburban School Children and American Indians: A Survey of Impressions(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1970) Hanson, Lorie; Harkins, Arthur M.; Sherarts, I. Karon; Woods, Richard G.; Craig, William; Zemyan, Mary