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The Real Book About the "White Working Class"

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  The Real Book About the "White Working Class" Interview with Les Leopold, author of "Wall Street's War on Workers," the book neither party wants you to read MATT TAIBBI Mingo County, West Virginia. In late February a new book by journalist Paul Waldman and University of Maryland professor Thomas Schaller called  White Rural Rage  hit the bookshelves. The book was a compendium of  Hee Haw!  caricatures of hayseed America mixed with a blunt diagnosis: rural Americans are disproportionately racist, conspiratorial, authoritarian, and supportive of political violence, key culprits in the rise of Donald Trump. “Rural Americans,” Waldman and Waller wrote, “are overrepresented among those with insurrectionist tendencies.” Media response was instantaneous and ecstatic.  Morning Joe  hyped  White Rural Rage  as if it were a cross of  What Happened  and  The Grapes of Wrath;  Mika Brzezinski sat rapt as Schaller described rural voters as “ the most racist, xenophobic, an