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What is White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy about?
A searing portrait and damning takedown of Americas proudest citizens who are also the least likely to defend its core principles White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, theyre right. In 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. Their ragestoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative medianow poses an existential threat to the United States. Schaller and Waldman show how vulnerable U.S. democracy has become to rural Whites who, despite legitimate grievances, are increasingly inclined to hold racist and xenophobic beliefs, to believe in conspiracy theories, to accept violence as a legitimate course of political action, and to exhibit antidemocratic tendencies. Rural White Americans attitude might best be described as I
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- Author
- Schaller, Tom & Waldman, Paul
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780593729144
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Politics, Social_sciences
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