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Rural Pain, Republican Gain

How the Republican Party Is Killing Rural America and Why Democrats Are Blamed


368 pages | 23 halftones, 23 line drawings, 12 tables | 6 x 9

Chicago Studies in American Politics

Political Science: American Government and Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part I. Republican Policies and Rural Health
2. The Right Against Life
3. Snake Oil States

Part II. Race, Place, and the Rural Right
4. Under the Elephant: How the Rural Sick and Poor Became Republicans
5. Place and Prejudice: How Rural Identities Undermine Health

Part III. The Rural Health Spiral in Three Acts
6. Deaths of Deceit: The Politics of the Opioid Epidemic
7. Dying for the Donald: The Politics of the Rural Hospital Crisis
8. COVID Comes to the Countryside

9. Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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