Red States, Blue States, and the Coming Sharecropper Society [Perfect Paperback]

Stephen D. Cummings (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 31, 2008

Conservative economic policy has created what investor Warren Buffett has called a Sharecropper Society, a quasi-vassal state indebted to foreign interests. This is the result of a conservative Red-state culture. The author contends that Democrats need to restore a liberal Blue-state culture which will deliver the country from its economic servitude. The book lays out the historical basis for doing that.

In addition, the author presents a statistical analysis of Red and Blue regions within states, showing how the local economic context influences voter priorities and uncovering the gaps between what they need and what they get.

Candidates have roughly nine seconds to get their message across to the average voter. This book gives coherent statements of Democratic and liberal values and encapsulates information, particularly economic and Democratic Party historical data, in a focused message.

The book provides a theoretical and philosophical basis from a historical and economic point of view to advance those ideas that were so successful for the Democratic Party from 1930 to 1964, and shows how the Democrats can become the majority party again.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Democratic Party activist Cummings expands on the argument he made in The Dixification of America: The American Odyssey into the Conservative Economic Trap, contending that the United States has long been characterized by two economic models that translated into different political paradigms. As a model, the conservative economy of the slave-holding south has been nationalized in the wake of Richard Nixon's Southern strategy and its dominance is leading the United States into becoming a sharecropper society. This danger can be avoided, suggests Cummings, if the Democratic Party embraces and actively pushes the more successful model that originated in the liberal Northeast. --BOOK NEWS, Inc.

About the Author

Steve Cummings has been campaigning for Democratic candidates since the rise of Eugene McCarthy in 1968.

With an MBA in Finance, he spent 18 years in the banking industry. He has been active in economic development issues and since 1990 has published economic statistics on Ventura County, California. Active in the Democratic Party for many years, he is a member of the Ventura County Democratic Central Committee and the Democratic State Central Committee of the California Democratic Party, an officer of the California Democratic Council (CDC), the statewide organization of Democratic Clubs, and the California Federation of Democratic Central Committee Members.

He is author of the book The Dixification of America (Praeger, 1998).

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Algora Publishing (March 31, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875866271
• ISBN-13: 978-0875866277
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #738,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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