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Republican Sen. John McCain says he hates them and would veto any bill with them. Congress keeps putting them in. They're earmarks, the way Congress pays for its pet projects — and rural America is getting its fair share.
The rural vote won the election in 2004 for George Bush. The Yonder provides a complete state-by-state breakdown of the rural, urban and exurban vote in that election.
There are growing numbers of rural and exurban counties where minority youth are a majority of the population under 20 years of age.