Not in Kansas

Do you remember a book by Thomas Frank published not too many years ago?  Its unusual title was borrowed from a youthful William Allen White.  In 1896 the Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor penned an editorial that asked “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”  In it, he questioned the intelligence of his fellow Kansans who had fallen for the “free silver” panacea of their Nebraska neighbor, William Jennings Bryan.