Democrats as urban-centric?

That's a theme of this Thomas Edsall piece from the New York Times a few days ago.  The headline is "Democrats Are Making Life Too Easy for Republicans."  Here's the part that speaks to the rural-urban divide within the Democratic Party: 

In an analysis of the complexity of the current Democratic predicament, Sarah Anzia, a professor of public policy and political science at Berkeley, addressed the preponderance of urban voters in the Democratic coalition: “The Democrats have a challenge rooted in political geography and the institution of single-member, first-past-the-post elections.” Citing Jonathan Rodden’s 2019 book “Why Cities Lose,” Anzia argued that the density of Democratic voters in cities has both geographically isolated the party and empowered its most progressive activist wing:

They need to find ways to compete in more moderate or even conservative districts if they hope to have majorities of seats in the U.S. Congress or state legislatures. But large numbers of their voters are concentrated in cities, quite progressive and want the party to move further left in its policy positions — and not just on social-cultural issues.

I blogged about the white working-class content of Edsall's column at Working Class Whites and the Law.