bill bishop pre-midwest rural assembly webinar
DESCRIPTION
Bill Bishop of the Daily Yonder presented the following slides in a webinar on Aug. 3, 2009. The presentation was intended as a lead-in to the Midwest Rural Assembly (Aug. 10-11) in Sioux Falls, SD, and centered on rural demographic and political shifts.TRANSCRIPT
August 3, 2009
Bill Bishop presents
“The Big Sort” for the Midwest Rural Assembly Webinar
Bill Bishop lives in Austin, Texas. He wrote The Big Sort with retired University of Texas sociologist Robert G. Cushing. Bishop has worked as a reporter at The Mountain Eagle, in Whitesburg (Ky.); a columnist at the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and on the special projects staff of the Austin (Tx.) American-Statesman.
Bishop and his wife, Julie Ardery, co-edit The Daily Yonder, a web-based publication (dailyyonder.com) covering rural America.
