Word: ruralism
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...though, and hanging out with friends from high school just makes one realize the toll time takes on old friendships. Realistically, the long break will mean a period of solitary confinement, spent glued to the television. For me, two weeks at home is enough—another minute in rural Concord, Massachusetts would make me implode. If I didn’t ever want to leave home, I would have gone to Williams...
...even while I am wholeheartedly caught up in Obamania, I nonetheless can’t help but think back to this fall, which I spent in Ashtabula County, Ohio, campaigning for Obama. I was a field organizer in the mostly rural townships in the southern part of the county where I spent my days knocking on the doors and calling the homes of undecided voters. My experience in the rural stretches of Ashtabula Country was that people weren’t seeing Obama in messianic terms...
...Ashtabula voters were confirmed Clintonites who didn’t ask themselves whether the Black candidate was going to represent their interests as a white person. The question on their minds was whether the big city, Harvard educated lawyer shared and was willing to protect the values of a rural Ohioan. To them, Obama’s election wasn’t about members of the elite trying to chase the cowboys out of the White House. It was about what the Democrats can do for “me,” to restore security and maybe a little...
...people he shows us - with their Yankee rectitude, the weathered parchment of their faces and their Nordic inwardness - seem to inhabit some prelapsarian America, the one that existed before automobiles and television. Wyeth's popularity coincided with the disappearance of an older U.S., a nation of regions, localities and rural fastnesses that was overwhelmed and homogenized after World War II by the mass market and mass media. Which is why, even at their dryest and gravest, his pictures are inevitably flush with nostalgia...
There are a lot of trends going on that should be scaring the daylights out of the Republicans. Democrats are on the upswing in their control of Congress, in state legislative seats, in rural areas. It's all the way up and down the ballot...