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What We Get Wrong About White Workers
Deindustrialization has helped create a right-wing turn in many Midwestern towns. Long traditions of labor militancy can explain why it hasn’t in others.
Stephanie Ternullo is assistant professor of government at Harvard University and author of How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics.
Deindustrialization has helped create a right-wing turn in many Midwestern towns. Long traditions of labor militancy can explain why it hasn’t in others.