A Voice From Northern England, but Which One?

I am no expert in US politics, but seeing flags on front lawns through the windows of a coach from Chicago to Urbana-Champaign in fall 2022 prompted my first inkling that Donald Trump winning a second term was a distinct possibility. Closer to home in England, a night out this spring in the impoverished but picturesque former mining town of Barnsley — twenty-five miles from where I work and live in Leeds — was my first direct encounter with a phenomenon I had till then only read about in the…