“Specifically, rural Whites pose four interconnected threats to the republic:
First, in a nation experiencing rapid demographic change, rural Whites are uniquely xenophobic towards Americans who look, speak, act, or pray differently from them. …
Second, the views of rural white citizens are least tethered to reality."
~ Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, pp. 158-9
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