Moving to page two, here is another excerpt from Thomas Frank's book:
If you earn over $300,000 a year, you owe to a great deal to this derangement (My note: pre-2006 Republican dominance.) Raise a glass sometime to those indigent High Plains Republicans (My note: Such as 533 residents of McPherson County, Nebraska) as you contemplate your good fortune. It is thanks to their self-denying votes that you are no longer burdened by the estate tax, or troublesome labor unions, or meddling bank regulators. Thanks to allegiance of these sons and daughters of toil, you have escaped what your affluent forebears used to call "confiscatory" income tax levels. It is thanks to them that you were able to buy two Rolexes this year instead of one and get that Segway with the special gold trim.
Sorry Mr. Frank, but there aren't just enough "poor" rural High Plains voters to sway national elections. And once again, while there is poverty on the Plains, McPherson County, Nebraska, despite your claim, is no where near the poorest county in America.
And besides, Plains state North Dakota has two Democratic senators, South Dakota one, Nebraska one (two if you count Chuck Hagel), and Montana, which geographically is mostly High Plains, has two Democratic senators. Although the second Montana Democrat was elected after the publicatio of Frank's book.
Kansas does has two GOP senators.
"What's The Matter With Kansas" is just more left-wing derangement. And just like Michael Moore's books, this one was a best-seller too.
I view myself as a typical Republican, just someone trying to make ends meet. I don't own a Rolex, nor a Segway. My wife works too. And like most Republicans, I live not in a rural area, but in a suburb.
And I don't earn anywhere near $300,000 a year.
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