Replication Data for: Park Free or Die: Rural Consciousness, Preemption, and the Perennial North Dakota Parking Meter Debate

North Dakota’s unique statewide parking meter ban was instituted by initiated measure in 1948. The 2017 legislative session saw the most credible effort to repeal the ban in decades. The legislative debate centered on tradition, the state’s long standing urban-rural split and its lingering populist roots. The authors place this debate within a larger rural consciousness literature and examine how the politics of rural resentment contributed to maintaining the ban. The authors also consider the willingness of state lawmakers to employ preemption as a tool to constrain the authority of larger cities within an urban-rural context.