A shared economic anxiety about inflation unites Americans across all regions, even as optimism about the nation’s future increasingly divides urban and rural areas.

Rural America’s optimism about the future surged to 60%, while big-city residents’ hopefulness plummeted from 55% to 45% in roughly a year.

Hispanic communities’ hope for their future collapsed from 78% to 58% as residents grew fearful of aggressive immigration enforcement under Trump.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Pessimism about the country’s future has risen in cities since last year, but rural America is more optimistic about what’s ahead for the U.S., according to a new survey from the American Communities Project.

And despite President Trump’s insistence that crime is out of control in big cities, residents of the nation’s

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