Blue in a Red State: The Survival Guide to Life in the Real America

Author Justin Krebs
Sunday, April 10, 2016, 2:00 pm

Blue in a Red StateHighland Park’s own Justin Krebs is back with a second book about politics in America. As the Democrat and Republican candidate hopefuls battle it out in the political arena this election season, their supporters are navigating relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbors who may not share their politics—but share their towns. Liberals are everywhere. But in many places across America, being a liberal can feel like the minority–and in the country’s most conservative corners, one might feel completely alone. It takes on new meaning on a day-to-day basis to be liberal in the proverbial “red states” dominated by conservative doctrine. Blue in a Red State: The Survival Guide to Life in the Real America introduces us to a handful of these “Red State Liberals”. A campaign director for MoveOn.org and founder of Living Liberally, Justin Krebs visited liberals all across America—in Waukesha, Wisconsin; Little Elm, Texas; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Pawleys Island, South Carolina; Pomeroy, Iowa; and elsewhere—who have chosen to stay in a politically unwelcoming environment for a variety of personal reasons. In Blue in a Red State he offers their stories, approaching his subjects with candor and respect while painting a portrait of liberals living among the “enemy”, as it were, by choice. A provocative and rollicking vision of strategies for living in a diverse society, Blue in a Red State chronicles how to keep up the liberal spirit in the toughest climates.