Jeronimo Cortina is associate professor of political science and executive director of the Population Health Collaborative at the University of Houston. He is coeditor of A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences (with Andrew Gelman, 2009) and New Perspectives on International Migration and Development (Columbia, 2013).

This important book reveals the underrecognized role of distance, space, and place in shaping political attitudes and behaviors. Moreover, it does so in a theoretically rich and multidisciplinary way, which can speak to the role of distance and space as they intersect with other fields.

• Acknowledgments1. The Forest and the Trees2. Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics: Zika, Ebola, and COVID-193. Bombs and Guns: Boston, Paris, and El Paso4. Protests: #BlackLivesMatter5. One Size Does Not Fit All: Attitudes Toward Immigration6. From a Distance: Partisanship, Public Attitudes, and Geographic Proximity Toward the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall7. The Perfect Storm8. The Great Drought, with Markie McBrayer9. So What?AppendixNotesIndex

Jeronimo Cortina is associate professor of political science and executive director of the Population Health Collaborative at the University of Houston. He is coeditor of A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences (with Andrew Gelman, 2009) and New Perspectives on International Migration and Development (Columbia, 2013).

This important book reveals the underrecognized role of distance, space, and place in shaping political attitudes and behaviors. Moreover, it does so in a theoretically rich and multidisciplinary way, which can speak to the role of distance and space as they intersect with other fields.

• Acknowledgments1. The Forest and the Trees2. Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics: Zika, Ebola, and COVID-193. Bombs and Guns: Boston, Paris, and El Paso4. Protests: #BlackLivesMatter5. One Size Does Not Fit All: Attitudes Toward Immigration6. From a Distance: Partisanship, Public Attitudes, and Geographic Proximity Toward the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall7. The Perfect Storm8. The Great Drought, with Markie McBrayer9. So What?AppendixNotesIndex

Jeronimo Cortina is associate professor of political science and executive director of the Population Health Collaborative at the University of Houston. He is coeditor of A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences (with Andrew Gelman, 2009) and New Perspectives on International Migration and Development (Columbia, 2013).

This important book reveals the underrecognized role of distance, space, and place in shaping political attitudes and behaviors. Moreover, it does so in a theoretically rich and multidisciplinary way, which can speak to the role of distance and space as they intersect with other fields.

• Acknowledgments1. The Forest and the Trees2. Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics: Zika, Ebola, and COVID-193. Bombs and Guns: Boston, Paris, and El Paso4. Protests: #BlackLivesMatter5. One Size Does Not Fit All: Attitudes Toward Immigration6. From a Distance: Partisanship, Public Attitudes, and Geographic Proximity Toward the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall7. The Perfect Storm8. The Great Drought, with Markie McBrayer9. So What?AppendixNotesIndex