Status Updates From White Rural Rage: The Threa...

She choked up as she described going to meetings that were pleasant enough "until you talk to the woman who is asking you for help and doesn't know what to do, who's in a horrible situation and saw that there's a political meet-and-greet and decided to come and seek help because her son had just committed suicide. And now she's standing in front of me, and I have her name and phone number, for what?"

When ND governor Doug Burgum, a billionaire, launched his presidential campaign with a video proclaiming his small-town values," Paul wrote a column suggesting that the things one learns growing up in a city-=dealing with many different kinds of people, handling change--might be even more valuable to the presidency. Burgum made the column the focus of a fundraiser email, which was titled "They Hate Rural America."