Recently there has been renewed attention to the concept of culture in analyses of urban politics. That resurgence has taken a different path from the religion-, race-, and ethnicity-dominated approach of classic formulations. Instead, a variety of scholars conceptualize and measure subculture based on trends at the heart of a postindustrial, cultural divide in the United States. Focusing on change in women’s social roles, greater prevalence of postsecondary education, increases in nontraditional household arrangements, the decline in traditional religious attachments, and the growing importance of “creative-class” occupations, writers have identified an emergent “unconventional” or “new political culture” that can be differentiated from a traditional or conventional subculture. This article presents a measurement validation study of this new approach that also shows the substantial correspondence between Census Bureau–based and survey-based measures of this new conceptualization.
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