RURAL AMERICA

Why Every Small Rural Town in America Is Marienthal

Red states don’t need to be red if jobs are guaranteed for all

Charles Bastille
Politically Speaking
9 min readMar 6

It’s election night. You’re watching the latest results, marveling at little blue spots in a sea of red while wondering, “How do Democrats ever win any elections at all?”

2016 presidential electoral map by county by Ali Zifan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

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Charles Bastille
Politically Speaking

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