Why did Trump win Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania? Something has been going wrong in America. You have to ignore those macrostatistics that describe the Megalopolis or San Fransisco and Seattle. "Median wages in the United States has been increasing all of Obama's term" is a claim that ignores geographic realities:
Post-War America really was greater for the families of the midwest: Vance traces his family lineage starting with his grandparents taking the Hillbilly Highway to the modern day, drug-laced disaster zone that is middle America. The culture shock of "Honor Culture" moving to the bigger cities avalanche and devolve when hit by economic shocks of stagflation and "rusting." The result is the story of Vance's life: a boy in a broken family who through luck and love makes his way to Yale Law school.
This book will make you cry and laugh. I'm not kidding- I started laughing on the metro one morning, and started tearing up the next. Vance lets us into his life and community in a pretty powerful way. If you want to know why Trump won and the Democratic party is in retreat, this book is the answer.
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