"White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman


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'White Rural Rage' looks at the most likely group to abandon democratic norms

Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller join Morning Joe to discuss their new book 'White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy'.
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"White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman
By Joe Donahue
Published February 28, 2024 at 11:33 AM EST

White rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right according to the new book, "White Rural Rage." Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions.

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None of that required interviews, polls or studies. Black people have been living through it and saying the same about them for years. Lee Atwater's "Southern Strategy" from the 1960's became the republican party's gospel on how to use white resentment to get them to vote against their own self interest around sixty years ago.

Basically, ignorant white folks have sheepishly fallen into blaming everyone that doesn't resemble them for their failures and lack of opportunity, except for their rich white brethren who have shrewdly manipulated them into perpetually blaming everyone else while they have been kicking them in the rear end for centuries.

J.D. Vance wrote a less academic book several years ago titled "Hillbilly Elegy" explaining the backwards thinking going in rural white America. Those people are so irreversibly backwards he wrote about them with utter bitter contempt, and yet still got elected by them to serve in the U.S. Senate.
 

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None of that required interviews, polls or studies. Black people have been living through it and saying the same about them for years. Lee Atwater's "Southern Strategy" from the 1960's became the republican party's gospel on how to use white resentment to get them to vote against their own self interest around sixty years ago.

Basically, ignorant white folks have sheepishly fallen into blaming everyone that doesn't resemble them for their failures and lack of opportunity, except for their rich white brethren who have shrewdly manipulated them into perpetually blaming everyone else while they have been kicking them in the rear end for centuries.

J.D. Vance wrote a less academic book several years ago titled "Hillbilly Elegy" explaining the backwards thinking going in rural white America. Those people are so irreversibly backwards he wrote about them with utter bitter contempt, and yet still got elected by them to serve in the U.S. Senate.
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my sentiments exactly...it aint rocket science at all
 
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