Blue in a Red State: The Survival Guide to Life in the Real America
- ISBN-10
- 1595589694
- ISBN-13
- 9781595589699
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-03-01
- Publisher
- New Press, The
- Author
- Justin Krebs
Description
Imagine if you felt out of step with every other member of the parent association at your kid’s school, your quilting circle, or even your workout group. What if casual conversations revolved around Fox News and the decline of American values? How would you feel if you were afraid to put a political bumper sticker on your car or had to think twice about what liberal posts you liked on Facebook? These are just some of the experiences shared by liberals across twenty states and five time zones who tell their stories with honesty, warmth, and humor. Most of us have to “talk across the aisle” once or twice a year—when we’re seated next to our conservative out-of-town uncle at Thanksgiving, say. But millions of self- identified liberals live in cities and towns—particularly away from the East and West Coasts—where they are regularly outnumbered and outvoted by conservatives. In this uplifting and completely original book, Justin Krebs, the founder of the national Living Liberally network, speaks with and tells the stories of atheists, vegetarians, environmentalists, pacifists, and old-fashioned liberals—a term he is intent on rehabilitating—from Texas to Idaho, South Carolina to Alaska. Krebs weaves these stories together to create a provocative and rollicking taxonomy of strategies for living in a diverse society, with lessons for every participant in our great democratic experiment.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do
By Andrew GelmanThis expanded edition includes new data and easy-to-read graphics explaining the 2008 election. Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State is a must-read for anyone seeking to make sense of today's fractured political landscape.
-
Blue Metros, Red States: The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States
By David F. Damore, Robert E. Lang, Karen A. DanielsenMore distant suburbs that feature mainly large-lot, single-family detached houses and lack mass transit often vote for Republicans. The book locates the red/blue dividing line and assesses the electoral state of play in every swing state.
-
Living Blue in the Red States
By David StarkeyThis book presents the work of essayists who look beyond the passions of the moment - the war in Iraq, the rallying of the Right around social issues, the Democrats' failure in 2004 - to the need for unity.
-
The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
By Steve KornackiFrom MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the birth of political tribalism in the 1990s—one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscape from Clinton to Trump In The Red and the ...
-
Red and Blue Nation?: Consequences and Correction of America's Polarized Politics
By Pietro S. Nivola, David W. BradyBuilding upon the findings of the first volume of Red and Blue Nation? (Brookings, 2006), which explored the extent of political polarization and its potential causes, this new volume delves into the consequences of the gulf between "red ...
-
The Tao of Red States and Blue States
By Ed BremsonMany traditional pundits have weighed in on this question, and they've told us what they think. That is good up to a point, but what about other interpretations? Ed Bremson addresses this question in The Tao of Red States and Blue States.
-
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
By Bill BishopThe award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in this groundbreaking book.
-
Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-blue State Alignment
By Jerry F. HoughThose who charged that Nixon had a racist Southern strategy often cited the Kevin Phillips book on “the emerging Republican majority.”25 Phillips ended his book with a map that gave the modern “red states” of the South, Prairies, ...
-
Blue Man in a Red State: Montana's Governor Brian Schweitzer and the New Western Populism
By Greg LemonAnd yet, who is he? From Montana journalist Greg Lemon comes this essential look at one of the West's most enigmatic and important political figures. "Brian Schweitzer fits our changing economic and political landscape.
-
One State Two State Red State Blue State: A Satirical Guide to the Political and Culture Wars
By Don DavisOne State, Two State, Red State, Blue State is one of the funniest and most outrageous political and social satires of recent years.