I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me

Essays on Rural Political Decay

By: Matthew Ferrence

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Paperback | 1 August 2024

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WHEN a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses. That's no surprise. But the story of how Ferrence loses and, more importantly, how American political narratives refuse to recognize the existence and value of nonconservative rural Americans offers insight into the political morass of our nation.

In essays focused on showing goats at the county fair, planting native grasses in the front lawn, the political power of poetry, and getting wiped out in an election, Ferrence offers a counter-narrative to stereotypes of monolithic rural American voters and emphasizes the way stories told about rural America are a source for the bitter divide between Red America

and Blue America.

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A direct look at the media narratives of politics. Ferrence wrestles with how he understands himself as an individual, a demographic, and then as Aristotle's political animal. It is a fascinating look at the making of political and cultural tropes from the inside."-Edward Karshner, author of Writing the Self: A Phenomenological Approach to the Composition Process

"Existing in the same context of What You're Getting Wrong About Appalachia and Appalachian Reckoning as an attempt to both understand the shifted political sands of place, and to assert a theory as to why, this book is an opportunity for people to deepen their understanding of rural people and politics."-Neema Avashia, author of Another Appalachia: Growing Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

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