This is such a good @tripgabriel piece about how the Democrats have lost their grip on Iowa. It goes to the heart of FULFILLMENT: the political divides aren't just urban-rural, they're also about struggling formerly Democratic small cities like Burlington. nytimes.com/2021/04/27/us/…
"Schools have closed...young people with college degrees have fled for opportunities in Des Moines or Chicago. Employers have backfilled jobs w/ immigrants, often after weakening unions and cutting pay. 'There’s just a discontent, an unhappiness here seeing communities shrink.'"
Key detail: "In places like Des Moines County [Burlington], people now must drive far to see a dentist or buy a pair of shoes and all of those hours in their cars have increased influence of right-wing radio. 'People are driving all the time, they’ve got radios on all the time.'"
And this paragraph could be straight out of FULFILLMENT: 
"...Still, it came as a shock. 'They were recognizable names,' he said later, 'but in unrecognizable homes.'" (p. 252-3).
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