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1 month ago | 
freerepublic.com | Tom Schaller |Paul Waldman
Free RepublicBrowse · SearchGeneral/ChatTopics · Post ArticleSkip to comments. The Last Acceptable Prejudice [book review of <i>White Rural Rage</i>]Chronicles ^ | February 2025 | Alexander RileyPosted on by Angelino97White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracyby Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman Random House 320 pp., $32.00 I stumbled across an astonishing book the other day.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Timothy L. Kelly |Tom Schaller |Paul Waldman |Jayson Landeza
Who poses the greatest threat to the survival of American democracy today? Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman argue in White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy that the answer is clear: rural whites have moved the nation to the precipice of political collapse.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Tom Schaller |Paul Waldman
Tim Walz is a moderate who seeks common ground. No, wait: He’s a radical, left-wing socialist. Since Vice President Kamala Harris chose the Minnesota governor as her running mate, politicians and many voters have struggled to pin down Walz’s ideology.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Paul Waldman |Tom Schaller
The cover photo of Hillbilly Elegy, the book thatmade J.D. Vance rich and famous and may ultimately carry him to the WhiteHouse, shows a run-down barn on a dirt road, a faded American flag painted onthe side. The rolling hills in the background suggest the scene is somewhere inAppalachia. But while Vance’s family comes from Jackson, Kentucky, he grew up200 miles away in Middletown, Ohio, a city of 50,000 located between Cincinnatiand Dayton.
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May 20, 2024 | 
americanaffairsjournal.org | Joel Kotkin |Tom Schaller |Paul Waldman |Benjamin Herold
REVIEW ESSAYWhite Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracyby Tom Schaller and Paul WaldmanRandom House, 2024, 320 pagesDisillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbsby Benjamin HeroldPenguin, 2024, 496 pagesSixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American Cityby Richard E.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Paul Waldman |Tom Schaller
Something remarkable happened among rural whites between the 2016 and 2020 elections: According to the Pew Research Center’s validated voter study, as the rest of the country moved away from Donald Trump, rural whites lurched toward him by nine points, from 62 percent to 71 percent support. And among the 100 counties where Trump performed best in 2016, almost all of them small and rural, he got a higher percentage of the vote in 91 of them in 2020.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
dailyyonder.com | Tom Schaller |Paul Waldman
“We pretty much own rural and small town America,” bragged Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell in 2022, and he was right: According to data from the Pew Research Center, 59% of rural Americans voted for Republican House candidates in 2018, then 65% voted for Donald Trump in 2020, then 69% for Republicans in 2022. The numbers for white rural Americans are even higher. What used to be a small GOP advantage in rural areas has widened into a chasm.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
nationalmemo.com | Tom Schaller |Paul Waldman
In their new book, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman argue that rural white citizens pose an existential, four-fold threat to U.S.democracy.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Tom Schaller |Paul Waldman
The following is adapted from the book “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy,” published by Random House and available on February 27, 2024. Congressman Chip Roy represents Texas’ Twenty-First Congressional District, which begins in the suburbs of San Antonio and Austin and then stretches 150 miles west into more sparsely populated areas of central Texas.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Tom Schaller |Paul Kalanithi |Alok Vaid-Menon
A book of broad explanatory power that’s not likely to help mend any fences. A view of rural America as a font of white privilege—and of resentment that the privileges aren’t greater.
