The Atlantic published an article challenging the notion of 'white rural rage' by Tyler A. Harper, who criticized the book 'White Rural Rage' for misusing data and distorting studies. Political scientists accused the authors of academic malpractice. Critics noted a correlation between rurality and insurrectionism but emphasized the importance of accurate research over sensationalized narratives. Several experts condemned the book for perpetuating stereotypes about rural people and misleading the public about threats to democracy. The divide between rural and urban areas was highlighted, with concerns about political polarization and the influence of 'rage peddlers.'
On the false but widely-repeated tropes about rural America's deplorable rage. @Tyler_A_Harper is the reason I resubscribed to @TheAtlantic https://t.co/KEERsrEVk2
"By bending the facts to fit their chosen scapegoat, Schaller and Waldman not only trade on long-standing stereotypes about dangerous rural people. They mislead the public about the all-too-real threats to our democracy today." @Tyler_A_Harper is the reason I resubscribed to…
I can only imagine the book white rural rage appealed to so many people because of their preexisting prejudices. The book is an internal form of orientalism for people to exoticize their own countrymen. Pretty lame if you ask me.
“And it is this divide I find particularly troubling — that so many rural and urban areas suffer from similar ailments but remain politically divided. It is not one solved by the new rage peddlers.” https://t.co/zCgkLk6b8l
"I’m an academic who studies rural Americans ... I’ve done it all largely to make sense of why rural voters are continually drawn to the Republican Party. But the thing about rage — I’ve never found it." https://t.co/jT2rB5IKCI
A true public service. A detailed, comprehensive destruction of a lazy dishonest book whose clickbait title—White Rural Rage— is contradicted by the evidence its own authors present. https://t.co/31oN8s6Qe8
Putting aside the debate over just how angry & resentful rural whites are (very), I do think it's important to remember that the core of Trump's reactionary movement is not poor ruralites but "local rich" suburbanites & exurbanites. https://t.co/7pi4CvkoPI
"...the defining aspect of the rural-urban divide [is] a sense of shared fate among rural voters, what academics call a 'politics of place,' that is expressed as a belief in self-reliance, rooted in local community and concerned that rural ways of living will soon be forced to…
“By bending the facts to fit their chosen scapegoat, Schaller and Waldman not only trade on long-standing stereotypes about dangerous rural people. They mislead the public about the all-too-real threats to our democracy today.” https://t.co/IrgF52Khh2
Liberals who dump on rural America are getting the research wrong. I know, because some of it is mine, says Nicholas Jacobs. https://t.co/sjdNZuQEj4
The most comprehensive takedown I’ve ever read of a putatively scholarly book. Just about everyone cited in the book or the acknowledgements thinks their work was misused. Truth is almost opposite what they say. How were people taken in by this book? https://t.co/u6kmyHrM8e
Thread. Yet another crappy pseudo-academic book that mis-cites its source material and gets noticed for political reasons. https://t.co/WYXrTUQ5an
Seems like even the critics of that White Rural Rage book agree there’s a modest correlation between rurality and insurrectionism? I feel like the real take is that there’s so much good research out there that pop studies of “who’s the worst identity group” aren’t very helpful
“A trio of reviews by political scientists have accused Schaller and Waldman of committing what amounts to academic malpractice, alleging that the authors used shoddy methodologies, misinterpreted data, and distorted studies…” https://t.co/a2I6le2WeW
I wrote about the book White Rural Rage and the scapegoating of rural people. I talked to over 20 experts in the field of rural studies and found a pattern of errors, distortions, and misleading uses of scholarship in Schaller and Waldman’s book. It’s egregious. Buckle up. 🧵 https://t.co/4NOSKcBdl5
“As serious scholarship has shown, the right-wing rage we need to worry about is not coming from deep-red rural areas,” @Tyler_A_Harper writes. “It is coming from cities and suburbs.” https://t.co/sLzemu06GE
Props to The Atlantic for challenging its readers biases and publishing @Tyler_A_Harper challenging "white rural rage." https://t.co/arnUZfYWif