This article tries to grapple with the voting phenomenon, as Mr. Frank sees it, of those in America's heartland voting for the Republican Party when it is not in their best interests to do so. He gives a variety of examples all dealing with the lack of correlation between the working class majority that is in the Midwest and the legislative and governmental effects of the Republican Party. He states that through the cultural backlash movement, the Republican Party has managed to garner strong support from the working class while not actually helping the working class.
He maintains that by proclaiming that the Republican Party is the party of American culture, of American spirit, and of true American people, they have not only gained power in both houses of Congress and the White House, but they have also reversed the many social and economic programs of the 19th and 20th centuries designed to protect those that choose to protect the elite. He states that "It is a working-class......
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