Robert Lang (The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West), David Damore (Political Science), and Karen Danielsen (School of Public Policy and Leadership) recently had a guest column featured in the Las Vegas Sun. Their piece "," discusses the demographic, economic, geographic, and political divisions between Northern and Southern Nevada. They analyze this further in their forthcoming book, Blue Metros, Red States: The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America’s Swing States, which will be released Oct. 6.