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discntnt_irny_srcsm

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Thu Jul 19, 2018, 10:27 PM Jul 2018

I will be very curious about this work

American Chaos looks like a movie that examines why some folks in red states voted for trump.
For six months before the election, director Jim Stern traveled red states asking about Donald Trump's appeal, and why voters were untroubled by things he had said and done. What he learned was a lesson in the central differences dividing America and the cultural divide that is tearing apart our democracy today.
https://www.the-numbers.com/search?searchterm=american+chaos

Planned for release on 14 September 2018.
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I will be very curious about this work (Original Post) discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2018 OP
This may be of interest:Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About 'Trump Country' elleng Jul 2018 #1

elleng

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1. This may be of interest:Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About 'Trump Country'
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 11:21 PM
Jul 2018

For one thing, it’s not Trump country. Most struggling whites I know here live a life of quiet desperation, mad at their white bosses, not resentful toward their co-workers or neighbors of color.

WICHITA, Kan. — Is the white working class an angry, backward monolith — some 90 million white Americans without college degrees, all standing around in factories and fields thumping their dirty hands with baseball bats? You might think so after two years of media fixation on this version of the aggrieved laborer: male, Caucasian, conservative, racist, sexist.

This account does white supremacy a great service in several ways: It ignores workers of color, along with humane, even progressive white workers. It allows college-educated white liberals to signal superior virtue while denying the sins of their own place and class. And it conceals well-informed, formally educated white conservatives — from middle-class suburbia to the highest ranks of influence — who voted for Donald Trump in legions.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/opinion/trump-corporations-white-working-class.html?

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