Red Blue Rich Poor Book Salon

I’m going to be hosting a Fire Dog Lake book salon with Andrew Gelman to talk about his book Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State on Saturday from 5PM to 7PM. It’s certainly the best book on American electoral politics of the past year. The novel element of the book’s approach is that instead of using a few anecdotes and plausible-sounding explainations of vague impressions, it’s based on analysis of real data. When doing so, it turns out that a lot of what people think they know about American politics—about limousine liberals versus working class conservatism in particular—is mistaken.

It’s a very interesting book filled with interesting conclusions. So I hope you’ll join me over here tomorrow at 5PM.