INTRODUCTION
1 Jill Abramson, “Will the Media Ever Figure Out How to Cover Trump?”, Washington Post, February 3, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-the-media-ever-figure-out-how-to-cover-trump/2019/02/03/b74e8774-266a-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html.
CHAPTER 1
1 AP, “2016 Iowa Presidential Election Results,” Politico, https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/iowa/; “2012 Iowa Presidential Results,” Politico, last updated November 19, 12, https://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/president/iowa/.
2 Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas? (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004).
3 Alan S. Gerber et al. “Self-Interest, Beliefs, and Policy Opinions: Understanding How Economic Beliefs Affect Immigration Policy Preferences,” Political Research Quarterly 70, no. 1 (January 6, 2017): 155–71, https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912916684032.
4 Susan A. Cohen, “Abortion and Women of Color: The Bigger Picture,” Guttmacher Policy Review 11, no. 3 (Summer 2008), https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/article_files/gpr110302.pdf.
5 Mark Weinraub, “Trump’s Tariff War Threatens to Erode Support of Farmers,” Reuters, June 18, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-agriculture/trumps-tariff-war-threatens-to-erode-support-of-farmers-idUSKBN1JE2X2.
6 Alexander Mallin, “As Trump Visits Iowa, Farmers Warn ‘Patience Is Wearing Thin’ on Tariff Fight,” ABC News, July 26, 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-visits-iowa-farmers-warn-patience-wearing-thin/story?id=56837609.
7 Dan Balz, “Loyalty, Unease in Trump’s Midwest,” Washington Post, May 10, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/trump-voters/.
8 Laura Hubka, “We Are Not the Ones We Were Waiting For,” Bleeding Heartland (blog), October 8, 2017, https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2017/10/08/we-are-not-the-ones-we-were-waiting-for/#.WdwK6AG2_78.facebook.
1 Election Center 2008, “National Exit Poll,” CNN, https://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1.
2 Sam Roberts, “2008 Surge in Black Voters Nearly Erased Racial Gap,” New York Times, July 20, 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/us/politics/21vote.html.
3 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Unemployment Rate—Black or African American,” FRED: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, updated June 5, 2020, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006.
4 Corey Dade, “Obama’s Most Vocal Black Critics Dial Back Attacks as Election Year Begins,” NPR, January 13, 2012, https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/01/13/145188135/obamas-most-vocal-black-critics-dial-back-attacks-as-election-year-begins.
5 Dan Balz and Ted Mellnik, “Census: Black Voted at Higher Rates Than Whites in 2012,” Washington Post, May 8, 2013, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/census-blacks-voted-at-higher-rates-than-whites-in-2012/2013/05/08/7d24bcaa-b800-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html.
6 Katrina Trinko, “Ryan on Election: ‘The Surprise Was Some of the Turnout,’” National Review Online, November 13, 2012, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ryan-election-surprise-was-some-turnout-katrina-trinko/?itm_source=parsely-api.
7 Paul Steinhauser, “Poll: Obama Makes Big Gains among Black Voters,” CNN, January 18, 2008, https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/18/poll.2008/index.html.
8 Humeyra Pamuk and P.J. Huffstutter, “Trump’s Trade War Looms over Divided U.S. Farms Belt ahead of Vote,” Reuters, November, 1, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-farmers/trumps-trade-war-looms-over-divided-u-s-farm-belt-ahead-of-vote-idUSKCN1N65TL.
9 Tara Golshan, “Trump’s Trade War with China Is Hurting Farmers, but They Won’t Abandon Him—Yet,” Vox, September 9, 2019, https://www.vox.com/2019/9/9/20757042/trump-trade-war-china-farmers-iowa-2020.
10 News Editor, “Farm Futures Survey: Farmer Support for Trump Slipping,” American Ag Radio Network, August 13, 2018, https://americanagnetwork.com/2018/08/farm-futures-survey-farmer-support-for-trump-slipping/; Scott Perry, “Trump Speaks to Farmers, Via Phone, at Farm Progress Show in Decatur,” Herald & Review, August 28, 2019, https://herald-review.com/business/agriculture/trump-speaks-to-farmers-via-phone-at-farm-progress-show/article_987fbd42-c28c-588f-8d86-17dc3eae5868.html.
11 Elena Schneider and Catherine Boudreau, “Dems Fear Another Rural Wipeout Will Reelect Trump,” Politico, August 20, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/20/democratic-primary-rural-outreach-1469005.
12 Megan Casella, “Farmers Are Losing Money Thanks to Trump—but They Still Support Him,” Politico, November 1, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/01/trump-farmers-trade-900623.
13 “USDA Announces Details of Support Package for Farmers,” USDA website, July 25, 2019, https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/07/25/usda-announces-details-support-package-farmers.
14 “USDA Announces Coronavirus Food Assistance Program,” USDA website, April 17, 2020, https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2020/04/17/usda-announces-coronavirus-food-assistance-program.
15 Jerry Hagstrom, “Trump Tells Perdue to ‘Expedite’ Aid to Farmers,” The Fence Post, April 10, 2020, https://www.thefencepost.com/news/trump-tells-perdue-to-expedite-aid-to-farmers/.
16 Election Results 2008, “Wisconsin: Presidential County Results,” New York Times, December 9, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2008/results/states/president/wisconsin.html.
17 Ken Belson, “Election 2012: Wisconsin,” New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2012/results/states/wisconsin.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=69C403FD5E4094ED2BF471D77F96AA59&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL.
18 Erin Gloria Ryan, “Trump Is Banking on Wisconsin Being Racist Enough to Go Red for the First Time Since 1984,” Daily Beast, November 1, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-banking-on-wisconsin-being-racist-enough-to-go-red-for-the-first-time-since-1984.
19 The New York Times, “Wisconsin Presidential Race Results: Donald J. Trump Wins,” New York Times, August 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/wisconsin-president-clinton-trump.
20 Frank Newport, “Americans Big on Idea of Living in the Country,” Gallup, December 7, 2018, https://news.gallup.com/poll/245249/americans-big-idea-living-country.aspx.
21 AP, “Farm Population Lowest Since 1850s,” New York Times, July 20, 1988, https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/20/us/farm-population-lowest-since-1850-s.html.
22 “Fast Facts about Agriculture and Food,” American Farm Bureau website, accessed June 12, 2020, https://www.fb.org/newsroom/fast-facts.
23 Julia Mitric, “As Farmers Age, They Face the Challenge of Finding Successors to Take Over,” Marketplace, May 21, 2019, https://www.marketplace.org/2019/05/21/as-farmers-age-they-face-the-challenge-of-finding-successors-to-take-over/.
24 Hope Kirwan, “Wisconsin Lost Record-Breaking Percent of Dairy Farms in 2018,” Wisconsin Public Radio, December 7, 2018, https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-lost-record-breaking-percent-dairy-farms-2018.
25 Colleen Kottke, “Wisconsin Continues to Lead U.S. in Farm Bankruptcies,” Wisconsin State Farmer, January 31, 2020, https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/2020/01/31/wisconsin-continues-lead-u-s-farm-bankruptcies/4625866002/.
26 Patricia Cohen, “The Struggle to Mend America’s Rural Roads,” New York Times, February 18, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/business/wisconsin-roads.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage.
27 Katherine J. Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (University of Chicago Press, 2016), 63.
28 Cramer, 59
29 Jack Shafer and Tucker Doherty, “The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think,” Politico, May/June 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bubble-real-journalism-jobs-east-coast-215048.
30 Jose A. Delreal and Scott Clement, “New Poll of Rural Americans Shows Deep Cultural Divide with Urban Centers,” Washington Post, July 17, 2017, https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-rural-americans-poll-urban-divide-20170617-story.html.
31 Schneider and Boudreau, “Dems Fear Another Rural Wipeout Will Reelect Trump.”
32 Stephen Dinan, “Court Orders Restoration of DACA Program,” Washington Times, February 13, 2018, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/13/court-orders-full-restoration-daca-program/.
33 Reuters, “Nancy Pelosi Says Trump Wants to ‘Make America White Again,’” Guardian (UK), July 9, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2019/jul/09/nancy-pelosi-says-trump-wants-to-make-america-white-again-video.
34 U.S. Census Bureau (2014–2018), Hispanic or Latino Origin by Specific Origin American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Census Reporter: Arcadia, WI, https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B03001&geo_ids=16000US5502500&primary_geo_id=16000US5502500.
35 Nathan Hansen, “Despite National Tensions, Arcadia Embraces Diversity, La Crosse Tribune, April 9, 2017, https://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/despite-national-tensions-arcadia-embraces-diversity/article_a1b9a828-5a2f-5b40-b15b-2bf57e01fd55.html.
36 Ryan, “Trump Is Banking on Wisconsin Being Racist Enough to Go Red for the First Time Since 1984.”
37 Lucy Madison, “Romney on Immigration: I’m for ‘Self-Deportation,’” CBS News, January 24, 2012, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/romney-on-immigration-im-for-self-deportation/.
38 U.S. Census Bureau (2014–2018), Hispanic or Latino Origin by Specific Origin American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.
39 U.S. Census Bureau.
40 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Unemployment Rate in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin,” FRED: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, updated June 3, 2020, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WITREM1URN.
41 Joint Economic Committee, “Rural DACA by the Numbers,” https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/e02f2015-ab3a-47aa-aa6f-215a1db74986/rural-daca-by-the-numbers.pdf.
CHAPTER 3
1 Time Staff, “Here’s Donald Trump Presidential Announcement Speech,” Time, June 16, 2015, https://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/.
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3 Wikipedia, s.v. “1984 Presidential Election in California,” last edited May 21, 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election_in_California.
4 Quick Facts: Orange County, California: United States Census Bureau, July 1, 2019, https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/orangecountycalifornia.
5 Joel Rubin, “O.C. Whites a Majority No Longer,” Los Angeles Times, September 30, 2004, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-sep-30-me-census30-story.html.
6 United States Census Bureau, Data USA: Orange County, California, https://datausa.io/profile/geo/orange-county-ca#demographics.
7 “Top Orange County Public Schools,” Public School Review, accessed June 12, 2020, https://www.publicschoolreview.com/california/orange-county.
8 Chris McGinnis, “Could John Wayne’s Racist Views Lead to Airport Name Change?,” SFGate, September 30, 2020, https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/John-Wayne-racist-airport-14480305.php.
9 Jordan Graham, “Late Vote Count Confirms Irvine Mayor Don Wagner Will Be New County Supervisor,” Orange County Register, March 18, 2019, https://www.ocregister.com/2019/03/18/late-vote-count-confirms-irvine-mayor-don-wagner-will-be-new-county-supervisor/.
10 Election 2016: California Results, New York Times, August 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/california.
11 Adam Nagourney, “A Democratic Rout in Orange County: Cisneros’s Win Makes It Four,” New York Times, November 17, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/us/politics/cisneros-orange-county-democrats.html.
12 Michael R. Blood and Stephen Ohlemacher, “Democratic Sweep in California Raises GOP Suspicion,” Associated Press, November 30, 2018, https://apnews.com/3cfd93f7859149809949bd611287154e.
13 “How Groups Voted in 1992,” The Roper Center, https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-1992.
14 Hansi Lo Wang, “Trump Lost More of the Asian-American Vote Than the National Exit Polls Showed,” National Public Radio, April 18, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/04/18/524371847/trump-lost-more-of-the-asian-american-vote-than-the-national-exit-polls-showed.
15 Adam Nagourney and Robert Gebeloff, “In Orange County, a Republican Fortress Turns Democratic,” New York Times, December 31, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/orange-county-republicans-democrats-demographics.html.
16 Nagourney and Gebeloff.
17 Alexandra DeSanctis, “Virginia Governor Defends Letting Infants Die,” National Review Online, January 30, 2019, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/virginia-governor-defends-letting-infants-die/.
18 Jordain Carney, “Chants of ‘USA’ after Trump Says, ‘America Will Never Be a Socialist Country,’” The Hill, February 5, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/house/428648-chants-of-usa-after-trump-says-america-will-never-be-a-socialist-country.
19 Congressional Leadership Fund memo, accessed June 12, 2020, https://www.congressionalleadershipfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/How-We-Win-The-House-Back-3.5.19.pdf.
20 Carlos Echeverria-Estrada and Jeanne Batalova, “Chinese Immigrants in the United States,” Migration Policy Institute, January 15, 2020, https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/chinese-immigrants-united-states.
21 “Democrats and Republicans Aren’t Just Divided. They Live in Different Worlds,” Wall Street Journal, September 19, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/graphics/red-economy-blue-economy/.
22 Luis Noe-Bustamante, Abby Budiman, and Mark Hugo Lopez, “Where Latinos Have the Most Eligible Voters in the 2020 Election,” Pew Research, January 31, 2020, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/31/where-latinos-have-the-most-eligible-voters-in-the-2020-election/.
23 Eli Lake, “Why Obama Let Iran’s Green Revolution Fail,” Bloomberg, August 24, 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-08-24/why-obama-let-iran-s-green-revolution-fail.
24 Jordan Graham, “Orange County Will Switch to Vote Centers in 2020, a Move Aimed at Boosting Turnout and Cutting Costs,” Orange County Register, February 26, 2020, https://www.ocregister.com/2019/02/26/orange-county-will-switch-to-vote-centers-in-2020-a-move-aimed-at-boosting-turnout-and-cutting-costs/.
25 Orange County Registrar of Voters, Election Data Central, accessed June 12, 2020, https://www.ocvote.com/datacentral/.
26 Kurt Snibbe, “Why Orange County Is the New Blue,” Orange County Register, August 9, 2019, https://www.ocregister.com/2019/08/09/why-orange-county-is-the-new-blue/.
1 Michigan Results: Election 2016, New York Times, August 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/michigan.
2 Chad Selweski, “Macomb One of Three Counties Nationwide That Won It for Trump,” Politically Speaking, December 23, 2016, https://www.politicscentral.org/macomb-one-three-counties-nationwide-won-trump/.
3 Story Hinckley, “Warning Signs for Trump in a Famous Swing County,” Christian Science Monitor, August 21, 2019, https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/0821/Warning-signs-for-Trump-in-a-famous-swing-county.
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5 John McWhorter, “Racist Is a Tough Little Word,” Atlantic, July 24, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/racism-concept-change/594526/.
6 “49% of Democrats Think TRUMP VOTERS ARE RACIST,” Rasmussen Reports, July 31, 2019, https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/july_2019/49_of_democrats_think_trump_voters_are_racist.
7 Geoffrey Skelley, “Just How Many Obama 2012-Trump 2016 Voters Were There?” Sabato’s Crystal Ball, UVA Center for Politics, June 1, 2017, http://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/just-how-many-obama-2012-trump-2016-voters-were-there/.
8 Ashley Jardina, “The White Backlash to ‘Crying Racism’: How Whites Respond to Calling Racial Preferences Racist,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2017, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZYEtGiXCQlCG9cQaM-1sxjjWpiKSAyny/view.
9 Edward Isaac-Dovere, “How the Democrats Took Back Michigan,” Atlantic, November 18, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/how-democrats-won-big-michigan-midterms/576043/.
10 David Eggert, “Michigan Election: Gretchen Whitmer In Follows Wakeup Call for Dems,” Oakland Press, November 25, 2018, https://www.theoaklandpress.com/news/state/michigan-election-gretchen-whitmer-win-follows-wakeup-call-for-dems/article_c544117e-f0f4-11e8-97d0-f336e98455b0.html.
11 Joel Gehrke, “Biden Tells Europeans in Munich That America Is ‘an Embarrassment,” Washington Examiner, February 26, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/biden-tells-europeans-in-munich-that-america-is-an-embarrassment.
12 Kirk Pinho, “Macomb County Outlook: A Slow Recovery, Pockets of Growth,” Crain’s Detroit Business, January 18, 2015, https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20150118/NEWS/301189972/macomb-county-outlook-a-slow-recovery-pockets-of-growth.
13 Lauren Gibbons, “A Look Back at President Trump’s Previous Visits to Michigan,” MLive.com, April 25, 2018, https://www.mlive.com/news/erry-2018/04/306a6e24eb935/a_look_back_at_president_trump.html.
14 Orange County Register, “Ford, Criticized by Trump, Cancels Plans to Build Mexican Plant,” Orange County Register, January 3, 2017, https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/03/ford-criticized-by-trump-cancels-plans-to-build-mexican-plant/.
15 Wikipedia, s.v. “List of Michigan Locations By Per Capita Income,” last edited April 16, 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Michigan_locations_by_per_capita_income.
16 United States Census Bureau, Quick Facts: Oakland County, Michigan, July 1, 2019, https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/oaklandcountymichigan
17 United States Census Bureau, Quick Facts: Macomb County, Michigan, July 1, 2019, https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/macombcountymichigan.
18 CNN Politics: 2016 Exit Polls, updated November 23, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls.
19 Josh Landon, “Full Speech Video: Trump Holds Rally in Sterling Heights, Fox News, November 6, 2016, https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/full-speech-video-trump-holds-rally-in-sterling-heights.
20 Elaina Plott, “Infrastructure Week Became a Joke. Now It’s for Real,” Atlantic, May 3, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trump-and-democrats-hope-strike-infrastructure-deal/588616/.
21 Alex Szwar, “Macomb County Has Largest Manufacturing Jobs Increase in Nation,” Macomb Township Chronicle, February 12, 2019, https://www.candgnews.com/news/macomb-county-has-largest-manufacturing-jobs-increase-in-nation-112006.
22 Aaron Rupar, “New congress member creates stir by saying of Trump: ‘We’re going to impeach this motherfucker!’” Vox, January 4, 2019, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/4/18168157/rashida-tlaib-trump-impeachment-motherfucker.
23 Nate Cohn and Claire Cain Miller, “They Voted Democratic. Now They Support Trump,” New York Times, November 26, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/upshot/democratic-trump-voters-2020.html.
24 “Abortion Trends by Gender, Gallup, accessed June 12, 2020, https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.aspx.
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26 Ariana Brockington, “Members of Iraqi Religious Minority Who Supported Trump Detained by ICE,” NBC News, June 28, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/members-iraqi-religious-minority-who-supported-trump-detained-ice-n777696.
27 Julia Edwards Ainsley and Matt Spetalnick, “Trump Says He Will Order ‘Safe Zones’ for Syria,” Reuters, January 25, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-syria-safezones-idUSKBN1592O8.
28 Justin Fishel, “ISIS Has Committed Genocide, Obama Administration Declares,” ABC News, March 17, 2016, https://abcnews.go.com/US/secretary-state-john-kerry-declare-isis-committed-genocide/story?id=37713938.
29 “Remarks by President Trump at the 2018 Values Voter Summit,” WhiteHouse.gov, October 13, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-2017-values-voter-summit/.
30 Mahita Galanan, “Trump Says He Met with the President of the Virgin Islands. But That’s Him,” Time, October 13, 2017, https://time.com/4982458/donald-trump-president-virgin-islands/.
31 Jon Huang et al., Election 2016: Exit Polls, New York Times, November 8, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html.
32 Claire Cretien, “President Trump: Our ‘Religious Heritage’ Will Be Cherished, Protected, and Defended,’” LifeSite, October 13, 2017, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-ahead-of-schedule-on-protecting-religious-liberty-conscience-rights.
1 Alan B. Krueger, Where Have All the Workers Gone? An Inquiry into the Decline of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, September 7–8, 2017, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1_krueger.pdf.
2 American Addiction Centers Editorial Staff, “First Responders Worry about Accidental Fentanyl Exposure,” Drubabuse.com, accessed June 12, 2020, https://drugabuse.com/first-responders-worry-about-accidental-fentanyl-exposure/.
3 DEA Strategic Intelligence Section, “National Drug Threat Assessment,” Drug Enforcement Administration, December 2019, https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-01/2019-NDTA-final-01-14-2020_Low_Web-DIR-007-20_2019.pdf.
4 Nana Wilson et al, “Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths—United States, 2017–2018,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 69, no. 11 (March 20, 2020): 290–97, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6911a4.htm.
5 Max Blau, “STAT Forecast: Opioid Could Kill Nearly 500,000 Americans in the Next Decade,” STATNews.com, June 27, 2017, https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/27/opioid-deaths-forecast/.
6 http://wonder.cdc.gov, “Drug Overdose Mortality by State,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, last reviewed April 29, 2020, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mortality/drug_poisoning.htm.
7 Hanna Kozlowska, “A Horrifying Statistic That Conveys the Sheer Scale of the US Opioid Crisis, September 28, 2017, Quartz, https://qz.com/1089723/the-opioid-crisis-is-so-bad-west-virginia-has-spent-nearly-1-million-on-transporting-corpses/.
8 Dan Levin, “Teaching Children How to Reverse an Overdose,” New York Times, February 23, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/us/opioids-tennessee-narcan-training.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR3GF0FEvJ7CQOBuB8_fy3MeEqqQkikeN0NC5-AHOp5MzYp2VKi7uJjlbRA.
9 Eric Eyre, “Drug Firms Poured 780M Painkillers into WV amid Rise of Overdoses,” Charleston Gazette-Mail, December 17, 2016, https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/legal_affairs/drug-firms-poured-780m-painkillers-into-wv-amid-rise-of-overdoses/article_99026dad-8ed5-5075-90fa-adb906a36214.html.
10 WHSV Newsroom and Associated Press, “West Virginia Attorney General Sues Grant County Pharmacy over Painkillers,” WHSV, December 22, 2016, https://www.whsv.com/content/news/West-Virginia-Attorney-General-sues-Grant-County-pharmacy-over-painkillers-407964895.html.
11 “Remarks by President Trump on Combatting Drug Demand and the Opioid Crisis,” Whitehouse.gov, October 26, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-combatting-drug-demand-opioid-crisis/.
12 “HHS Commits $144.1 Million in Additional Funding for Opioid Crisis, HHS.gov, news release, September 15, 2017, https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2017/09/15/hhs-commits-144-million-in-additional-funding-for-opioid-crisis.html.
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14 Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, “Department of Justice Awards Nearly $59 Million to Combat Opioid Epidemic, Fund Drug Courts,” United States Department of Justice, Justice News, September 22, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-awards-nearly-59-million-combat-opioid-epidemic-fund-drug-courts.
15 “The Underestimated Cost of the Opioid Crisis,” Council of Economic Advisers, November, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/The%20Underestimated%20Cost%20of%20the%20Opioid%20Crisis.pdf.
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17 “Overdosed,” (2019), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7391064/.
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19 “Remarks by President Trump in State of the Union Address,” Whitehouse.gov, February 4, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-state-union-address-3/.
20 “President Donald J. Trump Has Dedicated His Administration to Fighting Back Against the Opioid Crisis,” Whitehouse.gov, Fact Sheets, September 5, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-dedicated-administration-fighting-back-opioid-crisis/.
21 Marianna Sotomayor, Trump Signs Sweeping Opioid Bill with Vow to End ‘Scourge’ of Drug Addiction,” NBC News, October 14, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-signs-sweeping-opioid-bill-vow-end-scourge-drug-addiction-n923976.
22 “U.S. Opioid Prescribing Rate Maps,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Opioid Overdoses, https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/maps/rxrate-maps.html.
23 “CPB Enforcement Statistics Fiscal Year 2020,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection, https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics.
24 “Life Expectancy Increases in 2018 as Overdose Deaths Decline along with Several Leading Causes of Death,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, news release, January 30, 2020, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2020/202001_Mortality.htm.
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26 Associated Press, “Feds Allow Use of Opioid Funds to Stem Meth, Cocaine Surge,” CBS News, January 21, 2020, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-allow-use-of-opioid-funds-to-stem-meth-cocaine-surge/.
27 Vincent J. Felitti, MD, FACP, et al, “Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 14, no. 4 (May 1, 1998): 245–58, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0749-3797(98)00017-8.
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29 “Grant County, West Virginia Demographics Data,” Town Charts, accessed June 15, 2020, https://www.towncharts.com/West-Virginia/Demographics/Grant-County-WV-Demographics-data.html,
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1 “North Carolina Poverty Rate by County,” index mundi, accessed June 15, 2020, https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/united-states/quick-facts/north-carolina/percent-of-people-of-all-ages-in-poverty#map.
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3 Claire Galofaro, “A Trump County in NC: Residents Weigh Racial Divides,” News & Record (Greensboro, NC), December 5, 2017, https://www.greensboro.com/ap/north_carolina/a-trump-county-in-nc-residents-weigh-racial-divides/article_28a8a9d0-c2d2-59aa-bba0-bc6f2ce601c6.html.
4 Bob Shiles, “Democrats on Decline, Unaffiliated Surging in Robeson, Robesonian (Robeson County, NC), October 15, 2017, https://www.robesonian.com/news/103802/democrats-on-decline-unaffiliated-surging-in-robeson.
5 “Election Results 2008: North Carolina: Presidential County Results,” New York Times, December 9, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2008/results/states/president/north-carolina.html.
6 Stephanie Strom, “Election 2012: North Carolina,” New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2012/results/states/north-carolina.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=C9838FACDF69D51A0CEDC4DE6C2AE4D7&gwt=pay&assetType=PAYWALL.
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9 “North Carolina Presidential Race Results: Donald J. Trump Wins,” New York Times, August 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/north-carolina-president-clinton-trump.
10. Jim Morrill, “Election Exposes NC Urban and Rural Fault Lines,” Charlotte Observer, November 18, 2016, https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article115779373.html.
11 “Quick Facts: Robeson County, North Carolina,” United States Census Bureau, accessed June 15, 2020, https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/robesoncountynorthcarolina/INC110218.
12 Associated Press, “Converse Closes Chuck Taylor Plant,” Billings Gazette, May 30, 2001, https://billingsgazette.com/business/converse-closes-chuck-taylor-plant/article_aa78045e-5e0e-5bd4-bf02-ef7033bc27c5.html.
13 Catherine Pritchard, “20 Years after Passage, NAFTA Shadow Lingers,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, January 18, 2014.
14 Stephen Gandel, “Donald Trump Says NAFTA Was the Worst Trade Deal the U.S. Ever Signed,” Fortune, September 27, 2016, https://fortune.com/2016/09/27/presidential-debate-nafta-agreement/.
15 Michael Luo, “Memo Gives Canada’s Account of Obama’s Campaign Meeting,” New York Times, March 4, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/politics/04nafta.html.
16 Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016).
17 “Quick Facts: Robeson County, North Carolina,” United States Census Bureau, July 1, 2019, https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/robesoncountynorthcarolina.
18 “Judge Doesn’t Expect Opt-Outs on Gay Weddings,” Robesonian, June 20, 2015, https://www.robesonian.com/news/463/judge-doesntexpect-opt-outson-gay-weddings.
19 “11/08/2016 Official General Election Results—Robeson.”
20 “Britt Leads Republican Charge,” Robesonian (2016), accessed June 15, 2020, https://www.robesonian.com/news/93377/britt-leads-republican-charge/amp.
21 “Quick Facts: Robeson County, North Carolina.”
22 Scott Bigelow, “Schools Next to Last in Local Funding,” Robesonian, February 3, 2018, https://www.robesonian.com/news/107386/schools-next-to-last-in-local-funding.
23 Dave Wasserman, “Donald Trump won 76% of counties w/a Cracker Barrel & 22% of counties w/a Whole Foods—a 54% gap. In ’92, gap b/t same counties was 19%,” Twitter, November 9, 2016, https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/796425128359972864.
24 Jeff Zeleny, “Obama’s Down on the Farm,” The Caucus (New York Times blog), July 27, 2007, https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/obamas-down-on-the-farm/, no longer accessible.
25 Allen Turner, “Danny Britt Wins Reelection to N.C. Senate,” News Reporter (Whiteville, NC), November 9, 2018, https://nrcolumbus.com/danny-britt-wins-reelection-to-n-c-senate/.
26 Jarrod Lowery, “Why My American Indian tribe Voted Republican in NC’s Special Election,” The Hill, September 12, 2019, https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/461146-why-my-american-indian-tribe-voted-republican-in-ncs-special-election.
CHAPTER 7
1 “Lawsuits Related to Trump’s Muslim Ban,” ACLU website, accessed June 15, 2020, https://www.aclu.org/other/lawsuits-related-trumps-muslim-ban.
2 Dan Nowicki, “Sens. John McCain, Jeff Flake Slam President Trump’s Refugee Ban,” azcentral, January 29, 2017, https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/azdc/2017/01/29/sen-john-mccain-slams-president-donald-trumps-refugee-ban/97213920/.
3 Tad Walch, “LDS Church Issues Statement after Trump Orders Ban on Refugees,” Deseret News, January 28, 2017, https://www.deseret.com/2017/1/29/20605059/lds-church-issues-statement-after-trump-orders-ban-on-refugees.
4 Hunter Schwarz, “138 Years Ago, the Controversy over Travel Bans and Religion Was about Mormons from Europe,” CNN, January 30, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/30/politics/1879-mormon-travel-ban/index.html.
5 Julia Preston, “Utah Republicans Adopt Alternative Approach on Immigration,” New York Times, March 7, 2011, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/us/07utah.html.
6 “States Offering Driver’s Licenses to Immigrants,” National Conference of State Legislatures, February 6, 2020, https://www.ncsl.org/research/immigration/states-offering-driver-s-licenses-to-immigrants.aspx.
7 “A Deep Dive into Party Affiliation,” Pew Research Center, April 7, 2015, https://www.people-press.org/2015/04/07/a-deep-dive-into-party-affiliation/.
8 Betsy Cooper et al., “How Americans View Immigrants, and What They Want from Immigration Reform: Findings from the 2015 American Values Atlas,” PRRI, March 29, 2016, https://www.prri.org/research/poll-immigration-reform-views-on-immigrants/.
9 MWEG (Mormon Women for Ethical Government), “2019 | Official Statements,” MWEG in the News, accessed June 15, 2020, https://www.mormonwomenforethicalgovernment.org/mwegin-the-news.
10 Diana Bate Hardy, “Take Action Now to Help Dreamers,” Washington Examiner, February 28, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/take-action-now-to-help-dreamers.
11 Roberta Rampton and Susan Cornwell, “Trump Seeks $25 Billion for Border Wall, Offers ‘Dreamer’ Citizenship, Reuters, January 28, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-whitehouse/trump-seeks-25-billion-for-border-wall-offers-dreamer-citizenship-idUSKBN1FD2UU.
12 Kristina Wong and Rachel Martin, “Tea Party Power: Who’s Next after Bennett?” ABC News, May 9, 2010, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2010_Elections/tea-party-movement-unseats-bennett-ahead-republican-incumbents/story?id=10598877.
13 “Utah Caucus Results,” New York Times, March 22, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/primaries/utah.
14 The New York Times, “Utah Presidential Race Results: Donald J. Trump Wins,” New York Times, August 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/utah-president-clinton-trump.
15 Robert Gehrke, “While Mormons Nationally Stuck with Trump, in Utah He Lagged,” Salt Lake ribune, November 18, 2016, https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4573783&itype=CMSID.
16 Gehrke.
17 Thomas Burr, “National Poll: 61 Percent of Mormons Approve of President Donald Trump—Highest of Any Religious Group,” Salt Lake Tribune, January 12, 2018, https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/01/12/national-poll-61-percent-of-mormons-approve-of-president-donald-trump-highest-of-any-religious-group/.
18 Associated Press, “Mia Love Is Congress’ First Black Republican Woman,” USA Today, November 5, 2014, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/11/05/mia-love-first-black-republican-woman-congress/18523515/.
19 “Tracking Congress in the Age of Trump,” FiveThirtyEight, updated May 18, 2020, https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/mia-b-love/.
20 Daniel Woodruff, “Some Utah Republicans Dump Trump in Light of Video, Others Don’t” KUTV, October 7, 2016, https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-lt-gov-says-leaked-video-makes-it-that-much-easier-not-to-support-trump.
21 Abigail Abrams, “‘The President Must Apologize’: Haitian-American GOP Rep. Mia Love Slams Trump’s ‘Shithole Countries’ Comment,” Time, January 11, 2018, https://time.com/5100217/mia-love-donald-trump-shithole-remark/.
22 Bryan Schott, “Trump, Clinton Underperformed in Utah’s Four Congressional Districts in 2016,” UtahPolicy.com, March 28, 2017, https://utahpolicy.com/index.php/features/today-at-utah-policy/12770-trump-clinton-underperformed-in-utah-s-four-congressional-districts-in-2016.
23 Calvin Freiburger, “Utah Rep. Mia Love Hammers Dem Opponent for Backing Same-Sex ‘Marriage,’” LifeSite, September 5, 2018, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/utahs-mia-love-hammers-dem-opponent-for-backing-same-sex-marriage.
24 “NRA Endorses Mia Love for U.S. House in Utah’s 4 Congressional District,” NRA-ILA, October 12, 2016, https://www.nraila.org/articles/20161012/nra-endorses-mia-love-for-us-house-in-utah-s-4th-congressional-district.
25 Adam Brown, “Who Is REALLY the Most Conservative Utah Legislator?” Utah Data Points, May 9, 2011, http://utahdatapoints.com/2011/05/who-is-really-the-most-conservative-utah-legislator/.
26 Roll Call Staff, “Here Are the 15 Democrats Who Didn’t Vote for Pelosi as Speaker,” Roll Call, January 3, 2019, https://www.rollcall.com/2019/01/03/here-are-the-15-democrats-who-didnt-vote-for-pelosi-as-speaker/.
27 Benjamin Wood, ‘Love Gave Me No Love’: President Trump Slams Utah Rep. Mia Love in Post-Election News Conference, Says She Lost,” Salt Lake Tribune, November 7, 2018, https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/11/07/love-gave-me-no-love/.
28 Herb Scribner, “Video: Stunning Footage Shows Contrast in Color of the Great Salt Lake,” Deseret News, September 13, 2018, https://www.deseret.com/2018/9/13/20653399/video-stunning-footage-shows-contrast-in-color-of-the-great-salt-lake.
29 “U.S. Census Bureau: Quick Facts, Salt Lake City, Utah,” July 1, 2019, https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/saltlakecitycityutah.
30 Mike Anderson, “Salt Lake City ranks 3rd Most ‘Hipster City,’” KSL.com, April 14, 2018, https://www.ksl.com/article/46299916.
31 Amelia Robinson, “Dayton the Queerest (Unexpected) City in America,” Dayton.com, January 12, 2015, https://www.dayton.com/lifestyles/dayton-the-queerest-unexpected-city-america/SUfAamIno2Xe0FqfEZQQzH/.
32 “Mayflower & Livability’s Top Ten Cities for Millennials on the Move,” accessed June 15, 2020, https://www.mayflower.com/newsroom/top-10-millennial-cities-salt-lake-city-ut.
33 Jim Weiker, “Millennials Gain Clout in Urban Housing Markets,” GoErie.com, January 25, 2020, https://www.goerie.com/entertainmentlife/20200125/millennials-gain-clout-in-urban-housing-markets.
34 Matt Canham, “Salt Lake County Is Now Minority Mormon, and The Impacts Are Far Reaching,” Salt Lake Tribune, December 9, 2018, https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018/12/09/salt-lake-county-is-now/.
35 Daniel Strauss, “Sanders Wins Utah,” Politico, March 23, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/sanders-wins-utah-221136.
36 “Utah Presidential Race Results: Donald J. Trump Wins.”
37 Lisa Riley Roche, “Sanders Wins Utah In Final Presidential Primary Results,” KSL.com, March 24, 2020, https://www.ksl.com/article/46734152/sanders-wins-utah-in-final-presidential-primary-results.
38 Pamela S. Perlich et al., “Utah’s Long-Term Demographic and Economic Projections Summary,” Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, research brief, July 2017, https://gardner.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/Projections-Brief-Final-Updated-Feb2019.pdf.
39 Joel Kotkin, “Best Cities for Tech Jobs,” Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2012/05/17/the-best-cities-for-tech-jobs/#3a162ef932a3.
40 “Top 10 Places Californians Call Home in 2018,” February 20, 2018, Outside the Box (blog), https://www.tsishipping.com/blog/moving/top-10-places-californians-now-call-home-2018.
41 Daniel Allott, “Meet the ‘Plain Old Guy’ Who Could End Mitt Romney’s Political Career,” Washington Examiner, June 13, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/meet-the-plain-old-guy-who-could-end-mitt-romneys-political-career.
42 Bob Bernick and Bryan Schott, “Supreme Court Rejects Appeal over SB54, Meaning Utah’s Law Allowing Candidates to Gather Signatures Stands … for Now,” UtahPolicy.com, March 4, 2019, https://utahpolicy.com/index.php/features/today-at-utah-policy/19630-supreme-court-rejects-appeal-over-sb54-meaning-utah-s-law-allowing-candidates-to-gather-signatures-stands-for-now.
43 Bob Bernick, “Poll shows Utah GOP infighting in angering party members,” UtahPolicy.com, February 15, 2019, https://utahpolicy.com/index.php/features/today-at-utah-policy/19451-poll-shows-utah-gop-infighting-is-angering-party-members.
44 Herb Scribner, “Could Utah Become a Blue State? Why Expert Nate Silver Says It Already Is,” Deseret News, May 24, 2017, https://www.deseret.com/2017/3/24/20608907/could-utah-become-a-blue-state-why-expert-nate-silver-says-it-already-is.
45 MWEG (Mormon Women for Ethical Government), https://mormonwomenforethicalgovernment.org/press/media-releases/.
46 Bryan Schott, “For the First Time, a Majority of Utah Voters Approve of President Trump,” UtahPolicy.com, February 4, 2020, https://kutv.com/news/local/for-the-first-time-a-majority-of-utah-voters-approve-of-president-donald-trump.
47 Jana Reiss, “Trump’s Mormon Problem Continues, New Study Shows,” Salt Lake Tribune, February 4, 2020, https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/02/04/jana-riess-trumps-mormon/.
48 Sharlee Mullins Glenn, “Why I Became an Activist against Fear,” New York Times, February 19, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/opinion/mormons-religion-trump.html.
CHAPTER 8
1 Alec Tyson and Shiva Maniam, “Behind Trump’s Victory: Divisions by Race, Gender, Education,” Pew Research Center, November 9, 2016, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/.
2 Timothy Noah, “Does Labor Have a Death Wish?” Politico, November 7, 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/07/labor-movement-trump-betrayal-215796.
3 “Pennsylvania Presidential Race Results: Donald J. Trump Wins,” New York Times, August 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/pennsylvania-president-clinton-trump.
4 Kevin Flowers, “Final Erie County Vote Totals Shed Light on Trump’s Win,” GoErie.com, November 20, 2016, https://www.goerie.com/news/20161120/final-erie-county-vote-totals-shed-light-on-trumps-win.
5 Gary Weiss, “Erie County’s Population Shrinks for Fourth Straight Year,” GoErie.com, March 23, 2017, https://www.goerie.com/news/20170323/erie-countys-population-shrinks-for-fourth-straight-year#.
6 Jim Martin, “A Year of Challenges for Erie’s GE Plant,” GoErie.com, November 6, 2016, https://www.goerie.com/news/20161106/year-of-challenges-for-eries-ge-plant.
7 Nico Salvatori, “Trump Draws 8,000-Plus to Erie Campaign Rally,” GoErie.com, August 13, 2016, https://www.goerie.com/news/20160813/trump-draws-8000-plus-to-erie-campaign-rally.
8 CBS News, “America: Manufacturing Hope,” CBSN Originals, March 2, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGdIhpWrLs.
9 Kevin McCorry, “In Erie, a Microcosm of Pennsylvania’s Struggle for Education Equity,” WHYY, July 21, 2016, https://whyy.org/articles/erie-public-schools-a-district-on-the-brink/.
10 Richie Bernardo, “Cities with the Most and Least Diversified Economies, WalletHub, May 3, 2018, https://wallethub.com/edu/cities-with-the-most-least-diversified-economies/10852/#size.
11 Lisa Adams, “Erie Refugee Surge Featured in Wall Street Journal Article,” Erie News Now, updated March 7, 2017, https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/34629549/erie-refugee-surge-featured-in-wall-street-journal-article.
12 Theodore Schleifer, “Donald Trump: ‘I Think Islam Hates Us,’” CNN, March 10, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/09/politics/donald-trump-islam-hates-us/index.html.
13 “Wabtec Completes Successful Merger with GE Transportation,” Wabtec Corporation, February 25, 2019, https://www.wabtec.com/press-releases/8803/wabtec-completes-successful-merger-ge-transportation.
14 Jim Martin, “Erie Economy Roared in 2019,” GoErie.com, January 10, 2020, https://www.goerie.com/business/20200110/erie-economy-roared-in-2018?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%20Dynamic%20Ads&utm_content=GTDT_ERI&utm_term=011020.
15 “Erie Leading Index: 3rd Quarter 2019 Report,” ELI: Erie Leading Index 32 (Fall 2019), https://eriedata.bd.psu.edu/sites/default/files/2019-12/ELI%20%2332%20-%202019.Q3%20-%20FINAL.pdf.
16 “All Employees: Manufacturing in Erie, PA,” FRED: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ERIE542MFGN.
17 Trip Gabriel, “I Gave the Other Guy a Shot,” New York Times, October 7, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/us/politics/trump-democrats-pennsylvania-.html.
CHAPTER 9
1 “Lullabye Furniture Closing Is No Bedtime Story,” Journal-Times, March 18, 1991, https://journaltimes.com/news/national/lullabye-furniture-closing-is-no-bedtime-story/article_d695d161-8897-556f-bef2-9814fd333c28.html.
2 “Election Results 2008: Florida,” New York Times, December 9, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2008/results/states/florida.html.
3 The New York Times, “Election 2012: Florida,” New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2012/results/states/florida.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=09D4E2BFE3EBD39D5E7C6A2582B4C189&gwt=pay&assetType=PAYWALL.
4 The New York Times, “Florida Presidential Race Results, Donald J. Trump Wins,” New York Times, August 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/florida-president-clinton-trump.
5 “Cooperate Congressional Election Study,” Harvard University, https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/.
6 “Cooperate Congressional Election Study.”
7 “Cooperate Congressional Election Study.”
8 “Cohn and Miller, “They Voted Democratic. Now They Support Trump” (see chap. 4, n. 23).
9 Gabriel, “I Gave the Other Guy a Shot” (see chap. 8, n. 17).
10 “Man Who Appeared in Anti-Trump Ad Didn’t Vote in 2016,” yourerie.com, December 5, 2019, https://www.yourerie.com/news/local-news/man-who-appeared-in-anti-trump-ad-didnt-vote-in-2016/.
11 Thomas B. Edsall, “Trump Has a Gift for Tearing Us Apart,” New York Times, December 11, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/opinion/trump-immigration.html.
12 Matthew J. Belvedere, “Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants May ‘Haunt’ Dems against Trump, Says Ex-Sen. Evan Bayh,” CNBC.com, July 1, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/01/health-care-for-undocumented-immigrants-may-haunt-dems-against-trump.html.
13 Zach Goldberg, @ZachG932, “1/n Spent Some Time on LexisNexis over the Weekend …,” Twitter, May 28, 2019, https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133440945201061888.
14 “White Democrats, Those with College Degrees More Likely to Describe Their Views as Liberal,” Pew Research Center, January 17, 2020, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/17/liberals-make-up-largest-share-of-democratic-voters/ft_2020-01-17_demdideology_02/.
15 “Thomas B. Edsall, “The Democrats’ Left Turn Is Not an Illusion,” New York Times, October 18, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/opinion/democrat-electorate-left-turn.html?login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock.
16 16. Emma Newburger, “Obama Warns Democrats against Going Too Far Left: ‘We Have to Be Rooted in Reality,’” CNBC.com, November 16, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/16/obama-warns-democrats-against-going-too-far-left.html.
17 Chris Cillizza, “Half of Americans Think the Democratic Party Has Moved Too Far Left,” CNN, October 24, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/24/politics/democratic-party-left-liberal-q-poll/index.html.
18 Joe Biden, “Health Care,” Biden President, accessed June 15, 2020, https://joebiden.com/healthcare/.
19 Dino Grandoni and Jeff Stein, “Joe Biden Embraces Green New Deal as He Releases Climate Plan,” Washington Post, June 4, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/06/04/joe-biden-embraces-green-new-deal-he-releases-climate-plan/.
20 Jennifer Epstein, “Biden Adopts Free Public College Plan in Response to Sanders,” Bloomberg, March 15, 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-15/biden-adopts-free-public-college-plan-in-response-to-sanders.
21 Victor Morton, “Biden Says Beto O’Rourke to Lead Gun-Control Push: ‘The Country Needs You’” Washington Times, March 3, 2020, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/3/joe-biden-beto-orourke-lead-gun-control-push/.
22 Katie Glueck, “Joe Biden Denounces Hyde Amendment, Reversing His Position,” New York Times, June 6, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/us/politics/joe-biden-hyde-amendment.html.
23 Marc Caputo, “Leftward Ho! Biden Pivots to Progressives,” Politico, April 9, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/09/biden-progressives-sanders-178073.
24 Katherine Hignett, “Joe Biden Says Trump’s Brutality to Refugees Is an ‘Embarrassment’ and That Americans Know That’s Not Right,’” Newsweek, February 17, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-immigration-europe-nato-donald-trump-1334094.
CHAPTER 10
1 Tim Alberta, “‘Mother Is Not Going to Like This’: The 48 Hours That Almost Brought Down Trump,” Politico, July 10, 2019, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/10/american-carnage-excerpt-access-hollywood-tape-227269.
2 Jonathan Swan, “How Trump Won with Evangelicals—and won big,” The Hill, November 13, 2016, https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/305665-how-trump-won-with-evangelicals-and-won-big.
3 John Gramlich, “The Gap between the Number of Blacks and Whites in Prison Is Shrinking,” Pew Research Center, April 30, 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/30/shrinking-gap-between-number-of-blacks-and-whites-in-prison/.
4 Gabby Orr and Daniel Lippman, “Trump Snubs Jared Kushner’s Signature Accomplishment,” Politico, September 24, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/24/trump-kushner-criminal-justice-snub-1507285.
5 Benjamin Weiser and Ali Watkins, “Cesar Sayoc, Who Mailed Pipe Bombs to Trump Critics, is Sentenced to 20 Years,” New York Times, August 5, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/nyregion/cesar-sayoc-sentencing-pipe-bombing.html.
6 Jonathan Haidt and Tobias Rose-Stockwell, “The Dark Psychology of Social Networks,” Atlantic, December 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/social-media-democracy/600763/.
7 Susan Page and Merdie Nzanga, “Poll: On Trump, We Can’t Even Agree on Why We Disagree. But We Assume the Worst,” USA Today, June 21, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/21/poll-trump-we-cant-agree-why-we-disagree/720698002/.
8 Talia Lavin, “No We Don’t Have to Be Friends with Trump Supporters,” Forward, June 12, 2018, https://forward.com/opinion/402990/no-we-dont-have-to-be-friends-with-trump-supporters/.
9 “Since Trump’s Election, Increased Attention to Politics—Especially among Women,” Pew Research Center, July 20, 2017, https://www.people-press.org/2017/07/20/since-trumps-election-increased-attention-to-politics-especially-among-women/.
10 Andy Kroll, “Rep. Mark Sanford: Trumpism Is a ‘Cancerous Growth’ in the Republican Party,’” Rolling Stone, June 15, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rep-mark-sanford-trumpism-is-a-cancerous-growth-in-the-republican-party-628833/.
11 David Weigel, “Rep. Mark Sanford Loses Primary to Pro-Trump Challenger,” Washington Post, June 12, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/live-updates/midterms/live-primary-election-results/rep-mark-sanford-predicts-hell-primary-to-pro-trump-challenger/?arc404=true.
12 Thomas B. Edsall, “No Hate Left Behind” New York Times, March 13, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/opinion/hate-politics.html.
13 Gerald F. Seib, “In Impeachment, Tribalization of Politics Becomes Almost Complete,” Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-impeachment-tribalizationof-politics-becomes-almost-complete-11576507724.
14 Aris Folley, “CPAC Chairman Says He Would Fear for Romney’s Safety at Conservative Gathering,” The Hill, February 10, 2020, https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/482288-cpac-chairman-says-he-would-fear-for-romneys-safety-at/.
15 “Confidence in Institutions,” Gallup, accessed June 15, 2020, https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.aspx.
16 Alec Tysons, “Disagreements about Trump Widely Seen as Reflecting Divides over ‘Other Values and Goals,’” Pew Research Center, March 15, 2018, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/15/disagreements-about-trump-widely-seen-as-reflecting-divides-over-other-values-and-goals/.
1 Hannah McDonald, “Jim Wertz Elected Erie County Democratic Party Chairman,” Erie Reader, June 12, 2018, https://www.eriereader.com/article/jim-wertz-elected-erie-county-democratic-party-chairman.
2 Phillip Bump, “Sorry Campaign Managers: Lawn Signs Are Only 98.3 percent Useless,” Washington Post, December 29, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/29/sorry-campaign-managers-lawn-signs-are-only-98-3-percent-useless/.
3 Kevin Flowers, “Final Erie County Vote Totals Shed Light on Trump’s Win,” GoErie.com, November 20, 2016, https://www.goerie.com/news/20161120/final-erie-county-vote-totals-shed-light-on-trumps-win.
4 Danielle Kurtzleben, “Here’s How Many Bernie Sanders Supporters Ultimately Voted for Trump,” NPR, August 24, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds.
5 William Cummings, “Poll: 15% of Sanders Supporters Will Vote for Trump If Biden Is Nominee; 80% Would Back Biden,” USA Today, March 30, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/29/bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-trump-over-biden-poll/2936124001/.
6 Harry Enten, “Joe Biden Has a Young Voter Problem,” CNN, April 16, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/politics/biden-young-voters/index.html.
7 Sarah Leach, “Parents Brace for Monthlong School Closures,” March 13, 2020, Holland (MI) Sentinel, https://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/20200313/parents-brace-for-monthlong-school-closures.
8 Tom McCarthy, “‘It Will Disappear’: The Disinformation Trump Spread about the Coronavirus—Timeline,” Guardian (UK), April 14, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/14/trump-coronavirus-alerts-disinformation-timeline.
9 Jeremy W. Peters, “Alarm, Denial, Blame: The Pro-Trump Media’s Coronavirus Distortion,” New York Times, April 1, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/politics/hannity-limbaugh-trump-coronavirus.html.
10 William Cummings, “You’re Full of S***’: Joe Biden Gets in Heated Gun Control Debate with Detroit Plant Worker,” USA Today, March 10, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/10/joe-biden-gun-control-exchange-auto-plant-worker/5011344002/.
11 Kate Sullivan and Eric Bradner, “Beto O’Rourke: ‘Hell, Yes, We’re Going to Take Your AR-15, Your AK-47,’” CNN, September 13, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/12/politics/betoorourke-hell-yes-take-ar-15-ak-47/index.html.
12 Quint Forgey, “Donna Brazile to Ronna McDaniel: ‘Go to Hell’” Politico, March 3, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/donna-brazile-ronna-mcdaniel-go-to-hell-119492.
13 Rich Noyes, “Networks Trashed Trump with 90% Negative Spin in 2018, But Did It Matter?” NewsBusters, January 15, 2019, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/01/15/networks-trashed-trump-90-negative-spin-2018-did-it-matter.
14 “The Coronavirus Was Spreading. The parties Went On. Now Comes the Pain,” Washington Post, April 9, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-coronavirus-was-spreading-the-parties-went-on-now-comes-the-pain/2020/04/09/39bdbe1e-7908-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html.
1 Chris Kahn, “Biden’s Edge Evaporates as Trump Seen as Better Suited for Economy, Coronavirus Response, Polls Shows,” Reuters, May 5, 2020, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/bidens-edge-evaporates-as-trump-seen-as-better-suited-for-economy-coronavirus-response-poll-shows-idUSKBN22I005.