Jeff Roche
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The demography is...
Very similar.
The economy there is essentially the same.
So I don't see a big change in that part of the world.
Keeping in mind exactly what you said, historians are not in the business of predicting the future.
Now, what I do think is sort of interesting in the past 15 years is seeing the emergence of new spaces where we're watching people move from the Democratic Party into the Republican Party.
particularly around the part of the world where I'm right now in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
But this sort of southwestern Pennsylvania, southeastern Ohio, parts of West Virginia, we're watching a very similar move that I describe over the course of this book from being a solidly Democratic place to being a solidly Republican place.
Which I think would be worthy of historical examination to watch how the new congressional districts are coming up higher and higher in the partisan voting index that weren't there 15 years ago.
Wow, what a great question.
So the big takeaway message when they pick it back up and start reading again, like, oh, yeah, this is the book about X. Or this is the book that does this.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
I think from an intellectual standpoint, I think I would like it if a reader recalled the fact that this is a book that describes an intimate, almost symbiotic relationship between the history of a place and the political identity of a place.
Yeah.
These should not be separated.
Politics does not happen in a vacuum.
Political identity doesn't happen necessarily at an individual level, but very oftentimes at a regional level, especially if a region has a very distinct identity.
political identity.
I think that from an intellectual standpoint, I think that'd be something that I'd like for people to, to remember.
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