People in small towns, rural areas, and affluent areas of Butler have been tied to their places for generations. This is why issues such as climate change and globalization are fundamentally viewed differently, including among the college-educated in Butler. The placeless think of global policies, abstract efficiencies, and lofty ideas like social justice. The placed think of how things will affect their neighborhood, town, or city. Maraffa told me, “People who voted for Trump share a rootedness in place. Think of people in J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy or the TV series Justified, which was
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