Growing up in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, author Tim Schilke
knew that his concerns about some generally accepted suburban
truths were often left unanswered. He later learned that a
carefully crafted Red-suburban version of reality isolated him from
nearly everything real. Red truth was a strange morph of God,
Patriotism, and Republicans. When this uniquely Red-suburban
mentality played a role in winning President George W. Bush a
second term in late 2004, Schilke began an investigation into the
driving factors behind his Red upbringing, which still persist and
thrive today in suburban and rural America. From carefully-guarded
moral relativism, to the Army's questionable recruiting techniques;
from Major League Baseball's tainted home run records, to the myth
of the Ownership Society; Schilke maps these current events back
into the perspective of his Red upbringing. Why does Red-suburban
middle-America consistently vote against its own interests in
election after election? Growing Up Red attempts to show that, in
Red America, it is simply the patriotic thing to do. In Red
America, raw Faith trumps Knowledge. Carefully-tweaked irrational
fear drives never-ending consumption. Fourth of July. What happens
when actual reality starts to bleed through the carefully-protected
fences of suburbia? Find out in Growing Up Red.
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