Robert Wuthnow. (2018). The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Robert Wuthnow. 2018. The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. Blackstone Publishing.

Robert Wuthnow, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. Blackstone Publishing, 2018.

Robert Wuthnow. The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2018.

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How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans

What is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America's small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich portrait of the moral order—the interactions, loyalties, obligations, and identities―underpinning this critical segment of the nation. Wuthnow demonstrates that to truly understand rural Americans' anger, their culture must be explored more fully.

We hear from farmers who want government out of their business, factory workers who believe in working hard to support their families, town managers who find the federal government unresponsive to their communities' needs, and clergy who say the moral climate is being undermined. Wuthnow argues that rural America's fury stems less from specific economic concerns than from the perception that Washington is distant from and yet threatening to the social fabric of small towns. Rural dwellers are especially troubled by Washington's seeming lack of empathy for such small-town norms as personal responsibility, frugality, cooperation, and common sense. Wuthnow also shows that while these communities may not be as discriminatory as critics claim, racism and misogyny remain embedded in rural patterns of life.

Moving beyond simplistic depictions of the residents of America's heartland, The Left Behind offers a clearer picture of how this important population will influence the nation's political future.

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     February 12, 2018
     Sociologist Wuthnow (Inventing American Religion) condenses decades of research on rural America into a slim and accessible volume highlighting three pseudonymous rural communities from across America country whose members are tightly knit together by honesty, hard work, neighborliness, and Christian faith. Wuthnow argues that Donald Trump’s campaign message resonated so strongly in rural America because of the moral order that defines these communities. He writes that issues related to economic grievances—few jobs, population decline, drug abuse—matter to rural towns only insofar as residents perceive them to be a threat to the shared cultural reality. Wuthnow finds in all three communities that residents share a stark sense of society’s moral decline, in part because familiar, inward-looking solutions such as volunteerism and charity have come up short in a world of globalized problems. More than feeling ignored by the federal government, they don’t see why what’s good for a family or a town isn’t good for the country at large (e.g., techniques for balancing the family’s budget during tight times aren’t scalable on a national level), and interpret ideological disagreement as condescending elitism. Meanwhile, local culture wars over abortion and homosexuality still rage. Wuthnow veers away from discussing the merits of his subjects’ claims, some of which are racist (such as comments referring to President Obama as from another planet) or factually incorrect; readers seeking an analysis of such positions will want to look elsewhere. What makes this book valuable is that it provides a nuanced portrait of rural American voters from their own perspective.

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How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans

What is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America's small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich portrait of the moral order—the interactions, loyalties, obligations, and identities―underpinning this critical segment of the nation. Wuthnow demonstrates that to truly understand rural Americans' anger, their culture must be explored more fully.

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