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Part of a WSJ piece on Palin’s “small town values.” Please repost.

The GOP Loves the Heartland To Death - WSJ.com

Generally speaking, though, when husbands and wives work two jobs each it is not merely because they are virtuous but because working one job doesn’t earn them enough to get by. The two-job workers in Middle America aren’t spurning the Ivy League and joining the military straight out of high school just because they’re people of principle, although many of them are. It is because they can’t afford to do otherwise.

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