Daniel Piatkowski, Justin McCully, Melissa Piatkowski
{"title":"Toward a Rural Vision Zero: A Qualitative Exploration of Bicyclist and Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities in Small-Town and Rural Nebraska","authors":"Daniel Piatkowski, Justin McCully, Melissa Piatkowski","doi":"10.1353/GPR.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GPR.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"97-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/GPR.2021.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66405672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations ed. by Kathleen Ratteree and Norbert Hill Jr","authors":"J. Oberly","doi":"10.1353/GPR.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GPR.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"120-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/GPR.2021.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66405920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
[...]of the Great Compromise, which was essential to the creation of the US Constitution, each state has two senators regardless of population size, so Wyoming (pop. 577,719), South Dakota (pop. 887,770), and North Dakota (pop.779,702) each has the same amount of power in the Senate as does California (pop. 39,576,757) (US Census Bureau 2021). The authors find that growth in a town's Latino population increases the likelihood of passage of local English-only laws in towns with a mayor-council form of government, but not in towns with a council-manager form of government. Reference US Census Bureau. 2021.
{"title":"Exploring the Politics and Policy of the Great Plains","authors":"J. Blankenau, Brian R. Hanson","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"[...]of the Great Compromise, which was essential to the creation of the US Constitution, each state has two senators regardless of population size, so Wyoming (pop. 577,719), South Dakota (pop. 887,770), and North Dakota (pop.779,702) each has the same amount of power in the Senate as does California (pop. 39,576,757) (US Census Bureau 2021). The authors find that growth in a town's Latino population increases the likelihood of passage of local English-only laws in towns with a mayor-council form of government, but not in towns with a council-manager form of government. Reference US Census Bureau. 2021.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66406040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic to the United States, citizens have been encouraged to practice social distancing, staying a minimum of six feet away from others. For many, social distancing has become a form of civic duty and expression of unity. In the classic Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam describes community-mindedness as an important pillar of social capital that promotes civic engagement. We hypothesize that citizens who exhibit higher levels of social capital are more likely to socially distance. To test the hypothesis, we utilize publicly available county-level data from Kansas (105 counties) and Nebraska (93 counties) and proxy social capital with county voter turnout from the 2016 presidential election. To gauge social distancing, we use social distancing grades as assigned by Unacast, a company specializing in mobility data. We discover social capital has a significant impact on distancing. In other words, counties with the highest levels of voter turnout produced the best social distancing grades. Furthermore, population is not a significant predictor of social distancing. A vast majority of the counties examined were in fact rural. Rural counties with high numbers of infections-largely those with oligopoly in the meatpacking industry-yield better social distancing grades than the most populated counties.
{"title":"Staying Home on the Range: Social Capital and Social Distancing in the Great Plains during COVID-19","authors":"Alexandra T. Middlewood, M. Joslyn","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic to the United States, citizens have been encouraged to practice social distancing, staying a minimum of six feet away from others. For many, social distancing has become a form of civic duty and expression of unity. In the classic Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam describes community-mindedness as an important pillar of social capital that promotes civic engagement. We hypothesize that citizens who exhibit higher levels of social capital are more likely to socially distance. To test the hypothesis, we utilize publicly available county-level data from Kansas (105 counties) and Nebraska (93 counties) and proxy social capital with county voter turnout from the 2016 presidential election. To gauge social distancing, we use social distancing grades as assigned by Unacast, a company specializing in mobility data. We discover social capital has a significant impact on distancing. In other words, counties with the highest levels of voter turnout produced the best social distancing grades. Furthermore, population is not a significant predictor of social distancing. A vast majority of the counties examined were in fact rural. Rural counties with high numbers of infections-largely those with oligopoly in the meatpacking industry-yield better social distancing grades than the most populated counties.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66406123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Has the Sleeping Giant Awakened in Kansas? An Overview of Latino Voting Behavior in the Sunflower State","authors":"R. G. Rodriguez","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66406131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility by Rebecca M. Schreiber","authors":"R. A. Madrigal","doi":"10.1353/GPR.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GPR.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"115-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/GPR.2021.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66405801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West ed. by Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz","authors":"Nanosh Lucas","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66405760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surpassing the Wall of Nebraska Nice: Analysis of Immigration Rhetoric in Nebraska Journalism","authors":"K. Bauer, Samantha Redfern, H. Wang, Sienna Woo","doi":"10.1353/GPR.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GPR.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"57-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/GPR.2021.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66406114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines in Kansas: Revised and Expanded by Michael John Haddock and Craig C. Freeman","authors":"Bradley D. Guhr","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66405834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture by Stephanie Anderson","authors":"Abby M. Dubisar","doi":"10.1353/GPR.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GPR.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66405869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}