Wall Street Journal columnist Gerald Seib calls this the bookend' theory of economics. He notes that in the United States, trade tends to be wildly popular along the coasts while middle America and the South are wary. Mr. Seib cited a poll that shows that while the coasts are excited about their place in the global economy of the next 30 years, if the heartland had it their way, they'd just assume take the economy of the last 3 decades. From one side, I look at that, recall the farm slump of the 80s, and scratch my head. But from the other side, it makes sense.
Farmers do the riskiest business known to man.
They're newly vulnerable to the volatility of the markets thanks to Freedom to Farm. They're cautious by nature. They're not going to be persuaded by rhetoric. We can do that. The facts are most certainly on our side.