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27 Sep 2019, 4:57 am

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In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, scholars, journalists and ordinary citizens battled over whether economic anxiety or racial and cultural animus were crucial to the outcome.

Soon a consensus formed, however, among most — though not all — political analysts, in support of the view that attitudes about race, immigration, sexism and authoritarianism had more of an effect on Trump voters than the experience of economic hardship.

Matt Grossmann, a political scientist at Michigan State, summarized this argument in a May 2018 essay, “Racial Attitudes and Political Correctness in the 2016 Presidential Election.” Grossmann wrote that he had “reviewed nearly every academic article containing the name ‘Donald Trump’ ” and concluded:

The dominant findings are clear: attitudes about race, gender and cultural change played outsized roles in the 2016 Republican primaries and general election, with economic circumstances playing a limited role.

But economic decline was — and is — a compelling factor in generating conservative hostility to social and cultural liberalism.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opin ... ogin=email



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27 Sep 2019, 9:31 am

We can see from this county map that TRUMP won nearly everywhere.

The article has a paywall, however, the writer seems to be oblivious.

Looking at article titles, and drawing conclusions , seems like quackery.

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27 Sep 2019, 9:50 am

Also, the writer is echoing Clinton's remarks that the country supports TRUMP simply because they're Deplorables.

1. Not because of economic reasons.
2. Not because Clinton has baggage.
3. Not because they like Trump's message ("Make America great AGAIN!").
4. Not because he wants to end/redo free trade deals.
5. Not because they like his pro-worker message.
6. Not because they like his agenda.

No …. simply because they're DEPLORABLES.

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27 Sep 2019, 9:53 am

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The point of the Breitbart article was that Democratic support in national politics tends to be strongly concentrated in smaller, densely-populated urban areas, while Republican support tends to be more broadly spread across larger, sparsely-populated geographic areas:


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump ... nties-won/



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27 Sep 2019, 9:57 am

That's obvious.

Rural locales have voted Republican for years and years---since at least 1964 (the Johnson landslide) in many places.

Urban locales, even in "red states" tend to vote Democratic. Salt Lake City, in very Republican Utah, voted Democratic.



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27 Sep 2019, 11:09 am

When it comes to economy, we need better industrial development planning. We need to invest in parts of the country that don’t do as well, or are too heavily dependent on manufacturing or fossil fuels. We need to offer a transition and training plan for oil/gas/coal workers to be retrained for green energy jobs.

Our education system needs a complete overhaul as well.


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