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He carried rural white voters with 62% in 2016 and 71% in 2020. [22] ... or to livestock, or to crops. Rattlesnakes were an immediate danger to the family. Bears ...
White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy is a 2024 book by political science professor Thomas Schaller and op-ed columnist Paul Waldman. The book examines the supposed threat posed to the United States by rural white right-wing extremism .
Like most books about rural, white folk these days, "White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy," is also a New York Times bestseller. But dozens of critics, many whose research the book ...
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Cobb was a hard worker and was not going to let the white dominant race run his life; he continued to fight against unfair treatment of tenant farmers by starting a tenant farmers union. Cobb continued to climb the ladder of success from wage labor to sharecropper. He was finally able to own his own crops and land. He focused on growing cotton.
Rural women are particularly disadvantaged, both as poor and as women. [28] Women in both rural and urban areas face a higher risk of poverty and more limited economic opportunities than their male counterparts. [29] The number of rural women living in extreme poverty rose by about 50 percent over the past twenty years. [28]
Although livestock production serves as a source of income, it can provide additional economic values for rural families, often serving as a major contributor to food security and economic security. Livestock can serve as insurance against risk [ 45 ] and is an economic buffer (of income and food supply) in some regions and some economies (e.g ...
Subsistence farming continues today in large parts of rural Africa, [6] and parts of Asia and Latin America. In 2015, about 2 billion people (slightly more than 25% of the world's population) in 500 million households living in rural areas of developing nations survive as "smallholder" farmers, working less than 2 hectares (5 acres) of land. [7]