White Rural Rage

[Horace]

The "white rural rageful losers" angle has gotten some play over the years on this board from some resident TDS sufferers. Someone wrote a book trying to establish it, and it's a best seller.

Amazon - White Rural Rage

Paul Krugman loved it!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/opinion/white-rural-voters.html

The Atlantic, of all places, published a piece dismantling the scholarship of the book.

An Utterly Misleading Book About Rural America

It's behind a paywall, but it draws from three reviews of the book by academics familiar with the primary sources that the book mangles.

'White Rural Rage' Cites My Research. It Gets Everything About Rural America Wrong | Opinion

Commentary – New Book on Rural America Started with a False Conclusion, Then Looked for Evidence

The truth about 'rural rage'

[Mik]

Just keep trying to divide.

[LuFins Dad]

Deplorable…

[xenon]

The problem is coming into focus pretty clearly. It's harder to be a working class person in America and the democrats don't seem to give a shit.

It's not a racial thing. It's a work and dignity thing.

[Jolly]

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/05/white-rural-rage-myth-00150395

Another guy whose research appears in the book. Basically, he says the book is BS (and he's a Democrat).