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There__ a reason you probably haven__ heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight can__ be easily blamed on the usual suspects like government or counterculture or high-hat urban policy. The villain that did this to my home state wasn__ the Supreme Court or Lyndon Johnson, showering dollars on the poor or putting criminals back on the street. The culprit is the conservatives_ beloved free-market capitalism, a system that, at its most unrestrained, has little use for smalltown merchants or the agricultural system that supported the small towns in the first place....
What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
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There__ a reason you probably haven__ heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight can__ be easily blamed on the usual suspects like government or counterculture or high-hat urban policy. The villain that did this to my home state wasn__ the Supreme Court or Lyndon Johnson, showering dollars on the poor or putting criminals back on the street. The culprit is the conservatives_ beloved free-market capitalism, a system that, at its most unrestrained, has little use for smalltown merchants or the agricultural system that supported the small towns in the first place....
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