Flyover from MPR News focuses on issues of American identity and the changing American dream as they are lived and experienced in the cities, towns and rural areas that lie beyond the media spotlight. This podcast is an unedited hour of live radio with award-winning host Kerri Miller. Season Three, starting January 2020, focuses on the counties that flipped party loyalties from one presidential election to the next. Season Two, which aired the summer of 2018, focused on the Mississippi River. Season One, which aired in the fall of 2017, examined issues that sometimes divide us as a nation.
Flyover
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Flyover from MPR News focuses on issues of American identity and the changing American dream as they are lived and experienced in the cities, towns and rural areas that lie beyond the media spotlight. This podcast is an unedited hour of live radio with award-winning host Kerri Miller. Season Three, starting January 2020, focuses on the counties that flipped party loyalties from one presidential election to the next. Season Two, which aired the summer of 2018, focused on the Mississippi River. Season One, which aired in the fall of 2017, examined issues that sometimes divide us as a nation.
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March 5, 2020
Women in politics
<p>Only one woman, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, remains in the Democratic race for president. But that picture doesn’t tell the whole story. Across the country, more women are running for office than ever before. The 2018 election was widely hailed as the<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/11/01/midterm-elections-2018-women-show-physical-strength-campaign-ads/1835617002/"> Year of the Woman</a>, as women ran for office and voted in record numbers – many of them Democrats galvanized by the election of President Trump.</p><br/><p>“This is so much larger than a political reaction,” says Stephanie Schriock, president of Emily’s List. “[It’s] a cultural change. So many women are saying, ‘I need to serve, I have something to offer, I can do this.’ That’s not gonna go away when Trump’s out of office.”</p><br/><p>On Flyover 2020, we took a closer look at this new wave of women entering politics. What motivates them to get in the ring,<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-congresswoman-katie-hill-on-super-tuesday-women-running-for-elections-214243431.html"> knowing they will face discrimination and attacks</a>?</p><br/><p><strong>Guests</strong>:</p><br/><ul><li><a href="https://www.pols.iastate.edu/directory/dianne-bystrom/">Dianne Bystrom</a>, director emerita of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University.</li><li><a href="https://www.voterunlead.org/meet_the_team_2">Erin Vilardi</a>, founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead.</li></ul>
February 13, 2020
Flyover 2020: Farmer identity
<p>In the Upper Midwest, farming maintains a wholesome glow. Red barns, picket fences and photos of kittens weaving among jugs of frothy milk loom large in our collective psyche.</p><br/><p>But<a href="https://time.com/5736789/small-american-farmers-debt-crisis-extinction/"> reality is more stark</a>. Farm bankruptcies are up. Thousands of farms have simply closed. Farm debt is at an all-time high. Add in a trade war, severe weather and tanking crop prices, and it’s not hard to understand why health workers are<a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/12/10/farmer-suicides-are-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-help"> worried about a spike in suicide and depression</a>.</p><br/><p>At the same time, new farmers – usually young and passionate about regenerative practices and helping others – are entering the field.</p><br/><p>Thursday, for our Flyover 2020, we talk about the changing farming identity, and what it means to be a farmer today.</p><br/><p><strong>Guests</strong>:</p><br/><ul><li>Jenni Patnode, whose blog post<a href="https://faithfamilyfarmingblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/the-last-milking/"> “The Last Milking”</a> went viral after the sale of her and her husband’s fourth-generation Wisconsin dairy farm</li><li>Hannah Breckbill, co-owner of<a href="https://humblehandsharvest.com/"> the Humble Hands Harvest</a> farm outside Decorah, Iowa</li></ul>
February 5, 2020
Flyover 2020: What does patriotism mean?
<p>The Upper Midwest is<a href="https://patch.com/minnesota/across-mn/minnesota-ranks-one-most-patriotic-states-america"> patriotic</a>. But how that word is defined varies, depending on where you are standing and to whom you are talking.</p><br/><p>Thursday on Flyover 2020, we delve into the concept of patriotism and the role that the urban/rural divide plays in how the value is expressed – and how people vote.</p><br/><p><strong>Guests:</strong></p><br/><ul><li><a href="https://www.bates.edu/faculty-expertise/profile/francesco-g-duina/">Francesco Duina</a>, sociology professor at Bates College in Maine and author of the book “Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country”</li><li><a href="https://sociology.berkeley.edu/professor-emeritus/arlie-r-hochschild">Arlie Hochschild</a>, sociology professor emeritus at University of California Berkeley and author of the book “Strangers in their Own Land”</li></ul>
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