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Jan 9th, 2009 at 11:22 am

Red Blue Rich Poor Book Salon

I’m going to be hosting a Fire Dog Lake book salon with Andrew Gelman to talk about his book Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State on Saturday from 5PM to 7PM. It’s certainly the best book on American electoral politics of the past year. The novel element of the book’s approach is that instead of using a few anecdotes and plausible-sounding explainations of vague impressions, it’s based on analysis of real data. When doing so, it turns out that a lot of what people think they know about American politics—about limousine liberals versus working class conservatism in particular—is mistaken.

It’s a very interesting book filled with interesting conclusions. So I hope you’ll join me over here tomorrow at 5PM.

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23 Responses to “Red Blue Rich Poor Book Salon”

John Emerson Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
This book should completely change the way everyone thinks about American electoral politics. It destroys a lot of cliches and truisms and makes American class politics intelligible.
kntel Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Sounds interesting.
Moral Panicker Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I would not be much of a Moral Panicker if I did not defend my Obamist super-ego against my Krugmanist id who says “Waah! This contradicts Obama’s position in Bittergate.”
Obama’s (poorly conceived) remarks hypothesized neither (1) some golden age of poor white people being all “wooh!” for Democrats nor (2) the total dependence of Democrats on limousine liberals and minorities who too often in offensive political discourse are not considered real Americans.
I will be back with more trolling once I look at American Natoinal Election Studies more closely.
mpowell Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Emerson: Do you really think this book will change anything? I doubt it.
Moral Panicker Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
whatever new media
G C Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Doesn’t the cover have it backwards? The poor states are red; the rich states vote blue.
David Shor Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Damn, a week before I visit Washington.

Shame, Gelman and Yglesias would be something to see.
Watts Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
GC, you might want to at least read the book’s web site. The cover makes it a little pithy to match the nursery rhyme, but the book’s central thesis appears to be that the basic stereotype of “poor red state folks versus rich blue state folks” doesn’t match up with the demographics.
John Emerson Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Mpowell: people who don’t think and professional disinformationists will not change. But very few who are trying to understand these questions will not have their minds changed.
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