Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative RevolutionAfter George Bush's stunning reelection in 2004, newspaper headlines such as Rural Values Proved Pivotal summed up the story, and the outcome left tens of millions of urban Americans baffled and outraged. America's political divide is not between red states and blue states. The divide is between counties in every state in the nation, and this urban--rural schism is the new frontier in America's culture war. For the first time, Welcome to the Homeland explores the radically different culture evolving just over the horizon of our urban beltways, and explains how Homelanders - Mann's name for the nation's fifty million rural whites - have managed to dominate the conservative base of the Republican Party, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, and to use the electoral college, which favors small states, to their advantage. Ultimately, Homelanders are fighting to create a new national culture, one rooted in the traditional values of nineteenth-century America. In a nation that grows more urban and multiracial every year, how did Homelanders seize so much power? In a unique blend of travelogue, political analysis, and family memoir, Mann unveils a grassroots movement that has done the impossible, reversing the urban tide of American politics. |
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... idea was for a real - life impoverished Appalachian family to be transplanted to Hollywood . The network bagged the idea after critics threatened protests . " It was going to present rural people as a foil for cheap laughs , " Dee Davis ...
... idea was for a real - life impoverished Appalachian family to be transplanted to Hollywood . The network bagged the idea after critics threatened protests . " It was going to present rural people as a foil for cheap laughs , " Dee Davis ...
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... idea that society is the way God intends for it to be . Hard as that is for me to understand , that has to be the way it is . " " You really do want abortion banned ? You think that's a good idea ? " " The first thing I would do , I'd ...
... idea that society is the way God intends for it to be . Hard as that is for me to understand , that has to be the way it is . " " You really do want abortion banned ? You think that's a good idea ? " " The first thing I would do , I'd ...
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... idea triggered a firestorm among homelanders . My brother dis- missed the idea . “ It'll never happen , " Allen said . " We'd be done with Bush . That just won't work . " In a Web editorial titled " Christians warn Bush about his ...
... idea triggered a firestorm among homelanders . My brother dis- missed the idea . “ It'll never happen , " Allen said . " We'd be done with Bush . That just won't work . " In a Web editorial titled " Christians warn Bush about his ...
Contents
Preface Two Brothers Two Cultures | 1 |
Introduction The New Homelander Elite | 11 |
No Mans Land | 35 |
Copyright | |
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