Recently had a conversation with Monmouth College political science professor Robin Johnson about America’s regional cultures and their implications for the Midwest generally and the 2016 election results in the Upper Mississippi Valley in particular.
Our talk aired on this week’s edition of Johnson’s program “Heartland Politics” on KBUR in Burlington, Iowa, right in the heart of what I’ve called Trump Democrat country and with a broadcast area encompassing a swath of eastern Illinois (where Monmouth is located) and parts of northeastern Missouri. You can hear it again Tuesday morning at 0930 Central Time or right here online.
For more on voting patterns in the 2016 election, see this piece and this one.
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.