White Rural Rage
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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.
Paul Krugman loved it!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/opinion/white-rural-voters.htmlThe 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
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Deplorable…
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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).