Rural Pain, Republican Gain
How the Republican Party Is Killing Rural America and Why Democrats Are Blamed
9780226851792
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Rural Pain, Republican Gain
How the Republican Party Is Killing Rural America and Why Democrats Are Blamed
368 pages | 23 halftones, 23 line drawings, 12 tables | 6 x 9
Chicago Studies in American Politics
Political Science: American Government and Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part I. Republican Policies and Rural Health
2. The Right Against Life
3. Snake Oil States
Part II. Race, Place, and the Rural Right
4. Under the Elephant: How the Rural Sick and Poor Became Republicans
5. Place and Prejudice: How Rural Identities Undermine Health
Part III. The Rural Health Spiral in Three Acts
6. Deaths of Deceit: The Politics of the Opioid Epidemic
7. Dying for the Donald: The Politics of the Rural Hospital Crisis
8. COVID Comes to the Countryside
9. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Part I. Republican Policies and Rural Health
2. The Right Against Life
3. Snake Oil States
Part II. Race, Place, and the Rural Right
4. Under the Elephant: How the Rural Sick and Poor Became Republicans
5. Place and Prejudice: How Rural Identities Undermine Health
Part III. The Rural Health Spiral in Three Acts
6. Deaths of Deceit: The Politics of the Opioid Epidemic
7. Dying for the Donald: The Politics of the Rural Hospital Crisis
8. COVID Comes to the Countryside
9. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index