Nick Cohen on Thomas Frank

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Esp since Kansans are poorer than the national average, and, as Frank
points out, some of the poorest counties in the country (located in
Kan & Neb) voted overwhelmingly Republican in 2000. They don't even
need to be bribed.

Doug

^^^^^

CB: It's like why did Jesse James fight for the Confederacy ? He was poor ?

Do the Kansans' compare themselves only to other counties in the U.S. or to
counties in Mexico ?  They have seen migrant laborers.

Today rural Kansans have a global consciousness too. The awareness of
national average gives way to awareness of international average.