A Princeton Sociologist Spent 8 Years Asking Rural Americans Why They’re So Pissed Off
24th March 2018
Note that you never see articles about Midwestern sociologists who spend years asking urban Americans why they’re such assholes.
Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington.
God knows there’s no obvious reason, right?
Wuthnow’s work resulted in a new book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. He argues that rural Americans are less concerned about economic issues and more concerned about Washington threatening the social fabric of small towns and causing a “moral decline” in the country as a whole. The problem, though, is that it’s never quite clear what that means or how Washington is responsible for it.
Certainly it is — if you’re willing to look at the evidence. The problem is the government, the Federal government in particular. Government is run by urban degenerates, and the laws and regulations they impose on everybody else is what’s pulling the whole country down.
C’mon, Sean, be a journalist for once.