Re: Nick Cohen on Thomas Frank

[andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am unclear about your point. It could be read as
saying that you think that Kansas is the epicenter of
the socialist revolution. That is not the case. That
is why Frank wrote the book.

Jesse James was a psychopath who rode with Quantrill
-- he missed the Lawrence massacre, thought his
brother Frank didn't. But he wasn't crazy  because he
was poor. He was sorta poor, but not that poor -- I've
been at his house -- it was no dump for SE Missouri in
its day. He was just crazy and wicked.

jks

--- Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>





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