Joe Bageant on "the hallucination that is America" (with audio)

"Joe Bageant in conversation with Richard Fidler" (ABC-Brisbane, with audio-52:28):

America can look a bit bewildering today to outsiders - the richer states tend to vote for the Democrats and the poorer states for the Republicans who want tax cuts for the wealthy.

Joe Bageant can put forward more than a few reasons why the uneducated white Americans feel the way they do.

Howie P.S.: More Joe, interviewed in Australia on Radio New Zealand and ABC Northern Tasmania (scroll down).