Salena Zito tells the stories of fly-over, rust-belt America. I experience her work as a happy merger of journalism and anthropology.
In today's column for the Washington Examiner, Zito chronicles the political ground shifting in rural Pennsylvania. Several sheriffs - lifelong Democrats - talk about how their former party left them ideologically. They've registered as Republicans and admit they probably should have done it sooner.
In their plaints I hear an echo of Ronaldus Magnus, who liked to say "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, they left me." Her column is a good read.
