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I have lived in the south all my life - states that are similar in many respects to Frank's Kansas. Throughout the last 30 years, these states are notoriously conservative and, as Howard Dean said, continuously vote Republican (on a city, state, & national level) - and look what it's done for us? Each year, the south & the Heartland continue to have cuts, layoffs, education shortfalls, and otherwise substandard performance from our local and national government with respect to these regions. Regardless of this fact, people here continue to buy into the rhetoric that the right wing is in touch with the blue collar worker and his/her family.. that the Republican party is the Party of Values.. that the Left is merely a bunch of stuffy elitist college professors who "just don't get it." As this country drifts further and further to the right, states like Kansas, as Frank says, will continue voting against their own interests. Jobs will continue to fly out of these areas, standards of living will continue to fall, and the blue collar worker, by the love of his country and his otherwise stoic nature, will find solace in the fact that he is a person who represents true America. This being true, the Republican party will cater to this emotion by pumping up family values, bashing anyone who disagrees with their in-your-face foreign policy as "unpatriotic" (just like former Senator & triple amputee Max Cleland, right?), and pretending to be looking out for the average Joe.. when in reality, Bush said it himself at a black-tie, $800/plate fundraiser with millionaire attendees, "This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites; I call you my base." Frank does a service to us with this book, which is very well-written and thoughtful. I'd recommend this to any Republican who is fed up with his or her struggles that never seem to get better. You will definitely not find this type of discourse on Fox News.