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Lisa R Pruitt School of Law, University of California Davis , 400 Mrak Hall Dr, Davis, CA 95616 , USA lrpruitt@ucdavis.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 17, Issue 2, July 2024, Pages 407–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae014
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17 May 2024
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Lisa R Pruitt, Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 17, Issue 2, July 2024, Pages 407–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae014
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You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for twenty years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna’ regenerate and they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Those were comments candidate Barack Obama made to donors in San Francisco in April 2008 as he sought the Democratic nomination for US President (Plouffe, 2010). Perceived as condescending and unsympathetic to small-town residents, gun owners and churchgoers, these remarks might have cost Obama the presidency. In the wake of their disclosure, he struggled in the primary contests of several states with significant rural populations (Bai, 2008).
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I31 - General Welfare R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy Z13 - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification Z18 - Public Policy
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