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White Rural Rage The Threat to American Democracy

Tom Schaller

NEW YORK TIMES 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...

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The Matt Walsh Show

The book was presented as a new release that argued white rural voters constitute a threat to American democracy, outlining four interconnected dangers and citing polling data to support its claims.

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Mika Brzezinski introduces two authors who just wrote a book entitled White Rural Rage the threat to American democracy.

— Episode: Ep. 1320 - The Unabashed Demonization Of...

Episode: Ep. 1320 - The Unabashed Demonization Of Poor Whit...

The book was presented as a new release that argued white rural voters constitute a threat to American democracy, outlining four interconnected dangers and citing polling data to support its claims.

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Mika Brzezinski introduces two authors who just wrote a book entitled White Rural Rage the threat to American democracy.

Joining us now professor of political science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Tom Schaller and journalist and opinion writer Paul Waldman their new book out tomorrow is entitled White Rural Rage the threat to American democracy.

We lay out the fourfold interconnected threat that white rural voters pose to the country, showing 30 polls and national studies to demonstrate this.

They're the most racist, xenophobic, antiimmigrant, antigay geodemographic group in the country; they're also the most conspiracist group, supporting QAnon and Covid denialism.

The authors claim the book could have been titled White Poor Rage, noting that the term 'rural' is a euphemism for poor white voters.

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