Her hands drop and she smiles.
“And there will be a next time. I’m headed to DC to make sure Washington is listening, and I’m going to need all the help I can get.”
It was like a benediction.
Acknowledgements
The content and direction of this book were shaped by many conversations with Elizabeth A. along countless miles of Santa Cruz Mountain trails. Thank you, Elizabeth.
Many thanks to editor, Kristen Tate, of The Blue Garret, for your tireless work on the book’s many, many rough spots and for your kind and patient handholding.
Thank you to first readers Elizabeth A. and Joanne S. for staying the course. Thank you to readers Kimberly P., Karyn B., and Shirley C. for thoughtful input and the gift of pushback and differing perspectives.
Thank you to Sandra Hume for meticulous proofreading.
Finally, love and thanks to MP, for your support, understanding and love. This book could not exist without you.
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Notes
1http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/
2 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-couldnt-win-over-white-women/
3 Women constitute 52% of the electorate, https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p20-577.pdf
4 In 2014, used-car dealers employed 138,000, Arby’s employed 80,000 and coal mining employed 77,000 including office workers and sales staff. For context, there were over 140 million non-farm jobs in the US at the end of 2014. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/31/8-surprisingly-small-industries-that-employ-more-people-than-coal/, https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001
5 https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/10/19/the-us-lost-7-million-manufacturing-jobs-and-added-33-million-higher-paying-service-jobs/
6 http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/25/most-americans-unaware-that-as-u-s-manufacturing-jobs-have-disappeared-output-has-grown/
7 https://www.dailyfx.com/forex/fundamental/daily_briefing/daily_pieces/top_fx_headlines/2018/03/02/The-Impact-of-Tariffs-and-Trade-Wars-on-the-US-Economy-and-the-Dollar.html
8 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/us/politics/trump-election-russia.html
9 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-trump-and-race-are-splitting-evangelicals/
10 https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mister-ill-make-a-man-out-of-you
11 https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/18/politics/mike-pence-mothers-day-care/index.html
12 Because Americans rarely admit to being ‘racist,’ pollsters use proxy questions, e.g. ‘Do you oppose inter-racial dating or marriage?’ to estimate the prevalence of racial animus. 16-26% of White Adults and more than twice that for Whites over 65, oppose inter-racial marriage. And many who say they support inter-racial marriage are still disgusted by images of mixed-race couples, suggesting that respondents realize opposition to inter-racial marriage is not socially acceptable, and answer in the affirmative whether or not they actually do. http://news.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-whites.aspx, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/19/people-say-they-approve-of-interracial-couples-but-studi-uncover-bias/, http://www.pollster.com/blogs/Popkin%20Rivers%20Campaign%20Analysis%2011-04%20w%20graphs.pdf
13 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/KKK-other-hate-groups-showing-up-in-Bay-Area-10935682.php
14 https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
15 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/upshot/obamacare-repeal-bill-offers-both-enormous-flexibility-and-uncertainty.html
16 http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-gop-tax-reform-bill-obamacare-individual-mandate-impact-2017-12
17 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/upshot/how-the-failure-of-obamacare-repeal-affects-consumers.html
18 https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obamacare-promises-236021
19 https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlaszewski2/2016/11/12/it-isnt-news-that-trump-wants-to-keep-the-pre-existing-condition-reforms-he-said-so-in-february/#11b394c31d48
20 http://www.nationalsexstudy.indiana.edu/graph.html
21 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/20/george-bush-teen-pregnancy-abstinence
22 http://www.awrsipe.com/Articles/Celibacy_is_a_Problem.html
23 https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/examining-crisis/secret-sex-celibate-system
24 https://data.guttmacher.org/states/table?state=US&topics=160&dataset=data
25 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-saying-paul-ryan-and-donald-trump-belong-to-different-parties-is-kinda-wrong/
26 https://www.epa.gov/planandbudget/budget
27 https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/
28 http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/02/10/383875581/guess-how-much-of-uncle-sams-money-goes-to-foreign-aid-guess-again
29 https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/05/21/how-bad-is-social-security-fraud-nobody-knows.aspx
30 https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/#table1
31 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/
32 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/VitalStatsOnline.htm#Mortality_Multiple
33 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/has-trump-made-the-working-class-great-again-not-if-youre-black-or-female/
34 http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/model-estimates/individual-income-tax-provisions-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-february-2018/t18-0021
35 http://thehill.com/policy/finance/380598-poll-majority-of-americans-not-seeing-change-in-paychecks-due-to-tax-cuts
36 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-analysis-tax-cut-deficit-20180409-story.html
37 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-one-county-in-america-that-voted-in-a-landslide-for-both-trump-and-obama/
38 https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-gender/
39 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid-epidemic-drug-overdose-deaths-are-rising-faster-than-ever.html
40 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/upshot/republican-men-say-its-a-better-time-to-be-a-woman-than-a-man.html
41 http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/10/18/wide-partisan-gaps-in-u-s-over-how-far-the-country-has-come-on-gender-equality/
42 https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/sv-datasheet-a.pdf
43 https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2017/9/22/16345194/republican-party-pathological
44 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/07/obama-won-lots-of-votes-from-racially-prejudiced-whites-and-some-of-them-supported-trump/
45 http://www.pollster.com/blogs/Popkin%20Rivers%20Campaign%20Analysis%2011-04%20w%20graphs.pdf
46 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/obama-trump-voters-democrats.html
47http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/04/18/1718155115
48 https://www.prri.org/research/white-working-class-attitudes-economy-trade-immigration-election-donald-trump/
49 http://people.umass.edu/schaffne/schaffner_et_al_IDC_conference.pdf
50 https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/
8/30/12697920/race-dividing-american-politics
51 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/opinion/2016-exit-polls-election.html
52 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/opinion/sunday/liberals-youre-not-as-smart-as-you-think-you-are.html
53 http://www.epi.org/publication/black-white-wage-gaps-expand-with-rising-wage-inequality/
54 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/14/democrats-race-class-divide-2018-midterms
55 http://www.people-press.org/2017/04/24/with-budget-debate-looming-growing-share-of-public-prefers-bigger-government/
56http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/06/voter_study_group_and_why_obama_voters_defected_to_trump.html
57 http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/paul-ryan-wants-to-tackle-entitlements-healthcare-and-welfare-in-2018/article/2644237
58 “We’re never going to give up on entitlement reform and the things we need to do to get the debt under control,” Paul Ryan says. http://www.weeklystandard.com/finally-something-goes-right/article/2010955
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