Was it rural populism? Returning to the country, “catching up,” and trying to understand the trump vote

•Discursive geographic divides inhibit shared politics across country and city chasms.•Agrarian histories and unspoken whiteness hide the color line in the Midwest.•Trump-style ethnonationalism is an unstable articulation of stories and experience.•Rural precarity rarely understood as connected to broader processes of capitalism.•Sympathetic geographic scholarship can help dis- and re-articulate rural stories.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of Rural Studies

• Publication date

  2020-10-22

• Fields of study

  Geography, Sociology, Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.10.008PMID 33110289PMCID 7580523
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