Aaron’s Reviews > The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker > Status Update

When you go between Jacksonville and Gainesville and take highway 301, you will drive by derelict buildings and towns wasting away. You wonder, "Why can't we just build a bridge over these towns?" and wonder again, "Why do they resent us?"

If LA is the lens through which you can understand the South, and Ohio/Kentucky help you understand Appalachia, then Wisconsin is how you understand the rural Midwest.