How the Heartland Went Red : Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Past Informs the Present
	1. The Uneven Geography of Heartland Politics: The Local Ramifications of Political Transformation from the New Deal to Trump
	2. Local Organizations and the Shape of Problem-Solving in Motorville, Lutherton, and Gravesend
Part II. Place-Based Partisanship in the Present
	3. How Local Contexts Produce (Anti)-Statism in Motorville and Lutherton
	4. From Place to Partisan Identity in Motorville and Lutherton
	5. Politics in a Dying Place: Organizational Instability and Postindustrial Populism in Gravesend
Part III. The (Possible) Future of Place
	6. Local Contexts amid National Crisis: Economic Downturn in Motorville, Lutherton, and Gravesend
	7. The End of Place? How the Nationalization of Politics Shapes Place-Based Partisanship
Conclusion: The Future of Heartland Politics
Appendix A. Additional Figures Referred to in the Main Text
Appendix B. Methodological Appendix: Interview and Ethnographic Data Collection and Analysis
Notes
References
Index