City-interior divide afflicts even Connecticut

Despite the vogue for using social science as the tip of the spear of policymaking — or perhaps because of it — research and evidence often actually trail behind politics. But in so doing they can call into question the whole framing of an issue, especially one carrying a lot of ideological freight or working as an ideological sorting mechanism.
This is what appears to be happening with Connecticut, still broadly assumed to be one of those wealthy blue coastal states insulated from t