482 | Stephanie Ternullo: How Democrats Lost White Voters in the Heartland
Stephanie Ternullo, author of How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics and Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Stephanie discuss how focusing on local contexts helps explain why White voters continue to shift to the right, why the New Deal coalition broke down, the debate over whether all politics is local or increasingly nationalized, and how these dynamics defined the 2016 and 2020 elections.
May 31, 2024
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482 | Stephanie Ternullo: How Democrats Lost White Voters in the Heartland
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Stephanie Ternullo, author of How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics and Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Stephanie discuss how focusing on local contexts helps explain why White voters continue to shift to the right, why the New Deal coalition broke down, the debate over whether all politics is local or increasingly nationalized, and how these dynamics defined the 2016 and 2020 elections.
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