# #170. The Origins and Remedies for the Rural-Urban Political Divide Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/170-the-origins-and-remedies-for-the-rural-urban-political-divide Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/170-the-origins-and-remedies-for-the-rural-urban-political-divide.md Podcast: [Delving In with Stuart Kelter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973) Published: 2025-10-20T17:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://delving-in.captivate.fm Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1680bfad-f8db-44bd-a657-7747b3d9cce7.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/episodes/170-the-origins-and-remedies-for-the-rural-urban-political-divide Duration seconds: 3366 ## Resource Suzanne Mettler is a senior professor of American Institutions in the Government Department at Cornell University. She is the author of several books, including  The Submerged State and Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream,  published in 2014,  The Government-Citizen Disconnect,  published in 2018,  Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy , co-written with Robert C. Lieberman and published in 2024, and most recently,  Rural vs. Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy , co-written with Trevor E. Brown and published just a few weeks ago. Recorded 10/16/25. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/episodes/170-the-origins-and-remedies-for-the-rural-urban-political-divide/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/170-the-origins-and-remedies-for-the-rural-urban-political-divide.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.