Out of the blue today I got an op-ed piece from a Kansas professor who heads the American Geographical Society. He writes in response to Dick Cheney’s incest joke about West Virginians. (At least he didn’t shoot any of them.)
The writer talks about the most scorned minority in the country. It is not black people. It is not the Native American. It is, he writes, rural people, particularly those from Appalachia. (Hillary voters, you might say, by extension. There’s a special category of scorn for Hillary herself, of course, as any reading of our political threads will attest).
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Anyway, I thought the piece worthwhile. It is not political, but I think you’ll agree it has some current political resonance.