MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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It Wasn't Rural 'Hicks' Who Elected Trump: The Suburbs Were -- And Will Remain -- The Real Battleground
By EmmaZahn on Sun, 11/27/2016 - 7:15am |The popular notion of “city” and “country,” one progressive and “vibrant,” the other regressive and dying, misses the basic geographic point: the largest metropolitan constituency in the country, far larger than the celebrated, and deeply class-divided core cities, is the increasingly diverse suburbs. Trump won suburbia by a significant five percentage point margin nationally, improving on Romney’s two-point edge, and by more outside the coastal regions.
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http://www.newgeography.com/content/005459-it-wasnt-rural-hicks-who-elected-trump-the-suburbs-were-and-will-remain-the-real-battleground
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The Atlantic deals with "The Graying of the Economy", and a much longer piece on the world without work.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/27/2016 - 9:18am
Thanks for this reality check, Emma
by Michael Wolraich on Sun, 11/27/2016 - 4:32pm