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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... talk . Folks on the street are curious about me . I stick out in a place like this . My hair's a little too long , my graying beard and accent a little too East Coast . Even without these telltales , people here would know . There aren ...
... talk . Folks on the street are curious about me . I stick out in a place like this . My hair's a little too long , my graying beard and accent a little too East Coast . Even without these telltales , people here would know . There aren ...
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... talk about Iraqi voters with purple fingertips . I wanted to talk about the growing body count and the president's lawyerly endorsement of torture . In a sense , Allen and I are the perfect test case for the urban - rural standoff . We ...
... talk about Iraqi voters with purple fingertips . I wanted to talk about the growing body count and the president's lawyerly endorsement of torture . In a sense , Allen and I are the perfect test case for the urban - rural standoff . We ...
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... talk in generalities . You have to come in here and say here's how we're going to affect your life . " He described ... talking about . " " I know those people , " Brody conceded , nodding slowly . “ And what I try to say to them is that ...
... talk in generalities . You have to come in here and say here's how we're going to affect your life . " He described ... talking about . " " I know those people , " Brody conceded , nodding slowly . “ And what I try to say to them is that ...
Contents
Preface Two Brothers Two Cultures | 1 |
Introduction The New Homelander Elite | 11 |
No Mans Land | 35 |
Copyright | |
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