What Liberals Get Wrong About 'White Rural Rage' -- Almost Everything

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145. No, opposite. The book authors: "24% of rural Americans are non-white now and we have had eight years since Trump

came down the escalator ... of focusing on rural whites and what their economic anxieties are, but with the exception of two things we could find, opioid deaths and gun deaths, on every other measure in rural America, rural Latinos, rural African-Americans, and rural Native Americans -- the most rural populations in America -- are doing worse and nobody cares about their economic anxieties. And one of the things we argue ... in our concluding chapter is that if rural America really wants to revive itself they need to build a pan-racial, white and non-white coalition in rural America, but there doesn't seem to be any real effort from white rural Americans to do that.

"We have a whole chapter about non-white rural Americans because they've been totally ignored. ... And they have every right to be mad, but you know what they're not doing? They're not overrunning the capitol, they're not going down to the state capitol carrying AR-15s, ... and nobody treats them as they do white rural Americans as though we have a moral obligation to know what they're angry about and to cater to them."