Paul Krugman busts the myth that liberals disdain rural states — and reveals the GOP’s ‘contempt for middle America’

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written by Cody Fenwick April 26, 2019

The idea that liberals hate the middle of the country and harbor a deep antipathy for the occupants of rural states has become so ingrained a part of the conventional wisdom that almost no one questions it anymore. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg of Indiana, a rising candidate in the bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has spent a good deal of his campaign bemoaning this trait in his party — and pitching himself as the solution.

I have sometimes pushed back against the narrative, arguing that there’s at least as much hostility from rural regions to urban regions than there is in the reverse. And in a new column for the New York Times, Paul Krugman argued that the narrative is entirely upside down.

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/paul-krugman-busts-the-myth-that-liberals-disdain-rural-states-and-reveals-the-gops-contempt-for-middle-america/