In a few places I've seen Obama's bitter-Pennsylvanians remark
interpreted as the "Thomas Frankian idea that
getting-by small town voters are being snookered into voting
Republican over Gods, Guns and Gays." But Obama wasn't saying that
cultural issues are a distraction from economic issues --
he was saying that downscale voters "cling to guns or religion"
etc. because they're bitter about economic circumstances.
Correct me if I'm wrong -- I haven't read What's the Matter
With Kansas? -- but isn't that a little different from, and
more radical than, Frank's thesis?
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