The left behind

decline and rage in rural America

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Robert Wuthnow: The left behind (2018, Princeton University Press)

192 pages

English language

Published July 19, 2018 by Princeton University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-691-17766-3
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OCLC Number:
1004935165

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What is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America's small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich portrait of the moral order--the interactions, loyalties, obligations, and identities--underpinning this critical segment of the nation. Wuthnow demonstrates that to truly understand rural Americans' anger, their culture must be explored more fully. We hear from farmers who want government out of their business, factory workers who believe in working hard to support their families, town managers who find the federal government unresponsive to their communities' needs, and clergy who say the moral climate is being undermined. Wuthnow argues that rural America's fury stems less from specific …

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Subjects

  • Politics and government
  • Rural Sociology
  • Rural population
  • Working class whites
  • Public opinion
  • Attitudes
  • Social conditions
  • Rural conditions

Places

  • United States