Living Blue in the Red States

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction | David Starkey 1 Part 1. West 1. Another Way of Saying | Sherry Simpson 17 2. Hauling Water | Frank Soos 39 3. Red Politics and Blue in Wyoming | David Romtvedt 53 4. Running in the Red | Jennifer Sinor 66 Part 2. Midwest 5. Election Season | Lee Martin 83 6. Trapping | Jonis Agee 92 7. Here Was Johnny | Steve Heller 103 8. America, Where’s Your Sense of Humor? | Michael J. Rosen 111 . Control Issues | Robin Hemley 125 10. A Campaign That Failed | Deb Olin Unferth 136 Part . South 11. Playing Debussy in the Heart of Dixie | David Case 147 12. The Kreskin Effect | Jim Peterson 163 13. Faith | John Lane 182 14. How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Swamp in South Carolina | Gilbert Allen 192 15. Rescue the Drowning, Tie Your Shoe-Strings | Sidney Burris 207 16. P Is For . . . | Stephen Corey 230 17. Minority within Minority: Dynamics of Race and Culture in the New South | Anthony Kellman 243 18. Theater of Operations | Donald Morrill 256 1. The World Loves New Orleans, but America Has Not Come to Its Rescue | Mona Lisa Saloy 281 20. Louisiana’s New Political Landscape | Angus Woodward 295 21. Summertime | David Starkey 313 Afterword: Writing the Personal Political Essay | David Starkey 331 Contributors 339 ...