Mrs Hanson's party won its seats mainly in rural parts of Queensland, where her gritty style and easy solutions appealed to farmers and townspeople suffering from drought and debt.

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Rural areas around Tunbridge Wells have seen several older style Land Rovers targeted and police have particularly warned owners of Land Rover Defenders to secure their vehicles.

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They also included LDP-style patronage and pork as an electoral and governing strategy, particularly in rural districts.

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Working in a garment factory had seemed like the best route to escape rural poverty, said Ms. Begum, who worked for three years at New Wave Style Ltd.

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As opposed to gentry politics, whose bastions lay in fashionable urban districts and college towns, Truman-style democracy reached into the vast suburban dreamscape--even into small towns and rural areas.

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But as China's coastal provinces -- which were first opened for Western-style economic reform in 1979 -- grow more expensive, more companies are moving factories into rural areas, sparking a new wave of development and giving workers more options closer to home.

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