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One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"â??the populist revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests, workers and bosses, populists and right-wingers. In asking "what 's the matter with Kansas?"â??how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the unionâ??Frank, a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic interests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questions are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by examining pop conservatismâ??the bestsellers, the radio talk shows, the vicious political combatâ??and showing how our long culture wars have left us with an electorate far more concerned with their leaders' "values" and down-home qualities than with their stands on hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysisâ??and funny to bootâ??What's the Matter with Kansas? presents a critical assessment of who we are, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People. *Los A… (mehr)
(2004)Non-Fiction. political analysis of why a state like Kansas would vote so strongly Republican, when most of the population would benefit more from Democrats being in office.
I think generally it's a good book to understand the mentality of midwest conservatives. It does a good job showing just how we got to the point that low-income voters will almost unanimously line up behind anyone willing to claim abortion is murder or religion belongs in schools. It had some really good points about how conservative politicians will run on social issues then primarily legislate on economic ones, and how low income republicans are basically voting against their own economic interests constantly - something I haven't seen as much in my other readings.
However I would have liked a lot more data and citations because most of his arguments just sounded like a left-wing Ann Coulter: arguing that this is how the conservatives think and vote and are impacted with little to no external evidence to back it up. Stats on the decline of small business in Kansas, or the increase in voting based on social issues, or changes in wealth inequality. Without this the tone just came off kind of condescending. Additionally some discussion of the people manipulating these voters would have been good, rather than just name drop Coulter and Hannity and not talk specifics as to what they've done ( )
Frank's book is remarkable as an anthropological artifact. Although not terribly successful at explaining the cultural divide, it manages to exemplify it perfectly in its condescension toward people who don't vote as Frank thinks they should.
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Oh, Kansas fools! Poor Kansas Fools! The banker makes of you a tool.
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The poorest county in America isn't in Appalachia or the Deep South.
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It invites us all to join in, to lay down our lives so that others may cash out at the top; to renounce forever our middle-American prosperity in pursuit of a crimson fantasy of middle-American righteousness.
One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"â??the populist revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests, workers and bosses, populists and right-wingers. In asking "what 's the matter with Kansas?"â??how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the unionâ??Frank, a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic interests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questions are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by examining pop conservatismâ??the bestsellers, the radio talk shows, the vicious political combatâ??and showing how our long culture wars have left us with an electorate far more concerned with their leaders' "values" and down-home qualities than with their stands on hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysisâ??and funny to bootâ??What's the Matter with Kansas? presents a critical assessment of who we are, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People. *Los A