Michael Pope reports.
Voters in southwest Virginia often end up voting against their own economic self-interest; supporting politicians who promise to do things like ban critical race theory or oppose federal spending programs that could benefit their communities. That s the conclusion of Stephen Farnsworth at the University of Mary Washington.
Credit MBandman / Flickr, Creative Commons: flickr.com/photos/mbandman/23033039562 They win on cultural issues: support for guns, opposition to abortion, opposition to gay rights. Now, this doesn t put food on the table, Farnsworth explains. This doesn t put a dent into the health care bill that you might end up with if you get sick. But it does allow you to participate in what increasingly is a trench warfare politics both nationally and in Virginia.
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