tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post1893574297604895200..comments2023-12-22T00:52:34.146-08:00Comments on The World of Dr. Justice: “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”David Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12586387386542720405noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-81335424023487025252014-06-12T21:14:48.114-07:002014-06-12T21:14:48.114-07:00Have you read The Baffler No. 21? It has a lot to...Have you read The Baffler No. 21? It has a lot to say about how the conservative movement got to be so counterfactual.<br />I mention this because of your appreciation of Mr Frank; I never realized he edited that "aperiodical" until I read your bit here.<br />My first visit to yr site; sorry I messed it up w/ so many comments.Conrad Seitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02514151055691275301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-41300334191672533612013-07-28T17:36:51.300-07:002013-07-28T17:36:51.300-07:00Thank you, sir, for your quite substantive reply.
...Thank you, sir, for your quite substantive reply.<br />I have enough respect for Mr. Frank to imagine that he too would be interested in what you have said.<br />Yet from my outsider/kibbitzer perspective, you and Thomas Frank share more insights than disagreements.David Justicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12586387386542720405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-72812845294528004012013-03-03T08:41:34.990-08:002013-03-03T08:41:34.990-08:00I'm not enamored with Thomas Frank's work....<br />I'm not enamored with Thomas Frank's work. Having been born and raised in the state with my family having lived there since 1859, I can paint a different picture:<br /><br />Kansas, since before the Civil War, had two populations - a Yankee one the settled from the northern states and constituted the state's middle class of shopkeepers, and a Southern working class.<br /><br />Since WW II, the children of the Yankees went to college and never came back, but to visit. Now there is an aged remnant of this group now mostly in assisted living or nursing homes. Kansas is now a Bible-thumping Southern state, with customs from the South, like pecan pie bake-offs. I've seen my hometown's religious makeup go from mainline Protestant to now almost solely Evangelical.<br /><br />That is the real reason how Kansas got to be the way it is.<br /><br />Kevin Blankinshiphttp://www.facebook.com/kevin.blankinship.7noreply@blogger.com