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Nebraska’s Rural Rebellion A native Nebraskan deconstructs the Cornhusker State’s conservative politics and culture and how Democrats fell so far so fast. Trump rally at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, January 6, 2021 Rewind to two decades ago, when centrist Democrats like Ben Nelson and Bob Kerrey were the party’s standard-bearers in the Nebraska governor’s office and in the Senate. Since then, declining union influence, in-state infighting, and the national party’s lack of interest in developing new leaders in hard-to-win states have eroded the party’s fortunes beyond recognition. The steady coarsening of the national dialogue helped catapult this bastion of Midwestern cultural conservatism into a deep-red zone where Donald Trump crushed Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts took a hard line against the immigrants keeping the state’s meatpacking plants in business, and a Republican who attended the January 6 rally

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