Krugman highlights a distinction between real, or even real real, America, and what he calls senate America. It is a political distinction between the power of political enfranchisement in town versus country.
Distinctions of this kind are in some ways as old as politics.
But within the history of modern liberalism, a useful reference point, for comparison and contrast, regarding liberalisms, has been the domestic politics (although touching on the place of foreign policy) of the British Empire, and especially the home islands, since the mid 18th Century.
I recently read a book called The Formation of the British Liberal Party. It deals with many different issues, but hits incidentally on distinctions between town and country in the transformation of British politics, mainly during the 19th Century.
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