Michael E. Shepherd - Rural Pain, Republican Gain: How the Republican Party Is Killing Rural America and Why Democrats Are Blamed (Chicago Studies in American Politics) - at Conn Ave

Thursday, August 20, 2026•7:00 PM

An eye-opening look at how Republican policies have affected health outcomes in rural communities and why poor, rural white voters are turning to the Republican Party―not despite this harm, but because of it.

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