Nuclear Country: The Origins of the Rural New Right

Militarization and nuclearization were the historical developments most essential to the creation of the rural New Right

Both North Dakota and South Dakota have long been among the most reliably Republican states in the nation: in the past century, voters have only chosen two Democrats, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, and in 2016 both states preferred Donald Trump by over thirty points. Yet in the decades before World War II, the people of the Northern Plains were not universally p...