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Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State.(Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do )(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Attempting to explain "why Americans vote the way they do," Gelman and a group of fellow political scientists crunch numbers and draw graphs, arriving at a picture that refutes the influential one drawn by Thomas Frank, in "What's the Matter with Kansas?," of poor red-staters voting Republican against their economic interests. Instead, Gelman persuasively argues, the poor in both red states and ...

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