Former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill's commentary about Midwesterners and policy kicked off a debate on Twitter about how the Midwest is largely thought of as rural and white. We talk to a political scientist about how the Midwest plays in politics and what lawmakers get wrong about the region.
Links
[1] https://www.wpr.org/programs/central-time
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/31/midwest-is-not-synonymous-with-rural-white/
[3] https://www.wpr.org/people/rob-ferrett
[4] https://www.wpr.org/people/philip-chen
[5] https://www.wpr.org/people/j-carlisle-larsen