Search - What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Exceptional book revealing how religious fundamentalism and rightwing politics have become linked together and is having considerable influence in Kansas. A bestseller. (A friend however who is from Kansas says that the book is not completely true; that it focuses on those in rural areas rather than urban Kansasites)

From the book's cover: Thomas Frank, a native Kansan and onetime conservative, seeks to answer some fundamental American riddles: Who do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? Where's the outrage at corporate thievery? Why do illusory slights to the Ten Commandments trouble some people more than do the prospects of falling wages or monopoly power or the destruction of their very way of life?

Id' agree with most everything the author says (I wouldn't call it a left-wing "rant" like one of the previous reviewers, but then, I have rarely read a left wing rant - I've read or looked at thousands of right-wing rants). He does seem to miss something fundamental about the way people come up with their political affiliations, I don't know how I can explain it.