chad black 💚: Rural America is stuck in melancholia. Whether its perceived sense of loss is real or not doesn't really matter, as that sense of loss has become an internalized object breading rage and dislocation. We could use a politics of mourning, or a mourning of politics.

Rural America is stuck in melancholia. Whether its perceived sense of loss is real or not doesn't really matter, as that sense of loss has become an internalized object breading rage and dislocation. We could use a politics of mourning, or a mourning of politics.

In Opinion White rural rage is arguably the single greatest threat facing American democracy, our columnist Paul Krugman writes.

Opinion | The Mystery of White Rural Ragewww.nytimes.com Why do voters prefer politicians who lie rather than help?

The USA became a majority urban in 1920. Today, less that 18% of the population lives in nonmetro areas. Agriculture requires only 10% of the US workforce. What's left is generally service economy jobs subject to monopolistic retailers.

The ideology of heartlandism is one of these archaism that fuels the fascist imaginary.

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