What Turned Poor White Counties Red?

Arlie Russell Hochschild blames an emotional blindness to facts, erasing the Democrats’ deep failings.

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

Final response: what we talk about when we talk about the working class.

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

Rural places weren’t always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.

Testing the Waters in Texas

Whoever figures out how to save Texas might just save the rest of us in the process

The Mythical Whiteness of Trump Country

J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy has been held up as a guidebook for understanding the 2016 election, but it’s rooted in a dangerous myth.

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