Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Heart of America's Conservative Revolution
Brian Mann, . . Steerforth, $24.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-1-58642-111-3
Forget the red state/blue state divide—the real fault line is between progressive metropolitan and suburban areas in every region and the conservative rural sea surrounding them, asserts this trenchant study of American politics. Drawing on demographic, polling and voting data and interviews, journalist Mann analyzes the disconnect between overwhelmingly Republican rural "homelanders," who vote their traditional values and Christian moral certitudes, and an urban "metro" culture whose cosmopolitanism, secularism and relativism they revile. An avowed moderate pushed leftward by Bush's policies, his attitude is respectful but conflicted. Mann chides liberal pundits (Thomas Frank's
Reviewed on: 07/17/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 288 pages - 978-1-58642-133-5