What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas Frank

How, Frank asks, could this have happened? His book is an exploration of just how hard hit Kansas has been in an era of ever more right-wing Republican administrations and ever-rightward drifting Democratic ones of how a right-wing war against a fantasy “liberal power elite” was successfully waged, and why it is that people seem to vote against what once would have been considered their interests. And it is the complete negation of the Kansas of one hundred years ago, when those in the hardest-hit areas were the most desperate - and the most radical.” Going home again, he observes a simple fact of the voting map: “The more working-class an area is, the more likely it is to be conservative.” His observation: “This situation is the opposite of what it was thirty years ago. They are a small reminder that Kansas, Frank’s “homeland,” the state where he grew up, was once part of the great progressive heart of this country. If you do not allow these cookies, you will see less targeted advertising.These lines from a populist song of 1892 are the epigraph for Thomas Frank’s new book, What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.

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What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas Frank