We see people locked in their ivory towers of academia, and we see politicians stuck in their bubble of D.C. political thought.
What they often miss is a lot of middle America and what Americans truly think.
As someone who moved from the northeast suburbs to a more rural area, with “white rural” people as well as non-white rural folks, they are some of the most welcoming people I have ever met, in a way that was both surprising and a joy. Of course, that’s anecdotal. But that’s to say that stereotypes of all kinds tend to be stupid, confining people into a box.
Our sister site Townhall reported on this moment on MSNBC, where Mika Brzezinski had the authors of “White Rural Rage: the Threat to American Democracy” on as guests. This is something else — to cast millions of Americans this way.
Here’s what Tom Schaller, professor of political science at the University of Maryland,…
