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Politics : Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore's Masterpiece
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To: JeffA who wrote (1049)6/29/2004 10:57:08 AM
From: Rock_nj   of 2772
 
Here's a good example of our voting patterns opposing our economic interests that I was talking about:

As the writer Wallace Stegner observed, the rural Northeast is the prelude to the American West, and you could argue that the paradox of Delaware County rewrites itself in blazing letters over and over again across the Great Plains and the Mountain West. Nobody thinks it's strange that Nebraska and Nevada and Arizona and Montana vote for right-wing Republicans in election after election, consumed with tax-cutting fervor and a passion to shrink the government, even though it's the massive federal programs of the 20th century -- dams and aqueducts, agricultural subsidies, public lands thrown open to ranching and mining and lumbering -- that supports those states' economies to this day.

From: How the Democrats lost the heartland
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