Re: [Pen-l] what's the matter with Kansas?

[ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 21, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
> after a month or two of intermittent reading, I just finished Thomas
> Frank's book on Kansas. Can someone direct me to a leftist critique of
> it?

Don't know of a leftist critique, but one of the standard ones is  
Bartels:

http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansas.pdf

I don't find his critique convincing (not for reasons of data or even  
most of the analysis -- he offers pretty good background data from  
which he attempts to derive his critique, but I think his entire  
argument depends on, wrongly IMHO, a poor understanding of what is  
meant by "working class" in the question "why does the working class  
vote against its own interests?"). I have been hoping, for a while, to  
post my thoughts/criticism of Bartels... but haven't had the time.

	--ravi

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