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Interesting article. Still processing. I've read it twice. I'm reading it again.

Freespirit64 8 June 26
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I don't want rural people to lose their way of life but I am hard-pressed to believe that Republicans will help them keep it. We'll see.

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Wow..seems like a really honest warts and all portrayal of the real mindset of the people who elected Trump.
Love it or dismiss it..but it delves deep into their desperate and angry brick through the window of the politics of a truly devided nation...one side feels forgotten and neglected...the other side..confounded and betrayed.

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Loved the article!
I lived 27 years in Rowan County, in the eastern Kentucky hills, on my grandfather's farm. The locals shot enough deer during hunting season, (or not!) to store enough venison in a rented food locker to last the year!

They fished, grew their own food, raised tobacco to sell, rode calm, gaited horses they bred themselves, fixed their own cars, built their own houses, never called the police since everyone, from the seven year old to the 80-year-old grandmother had a gun within quick access distance, and knew how to use it.

Many kept expensive coon hounds and regularly went on hunts.

They attend tiny rural churches with songs from the 18th century, where everyone, young and old, is required to play and sing "solos" at church, so even young children are used to performing in public.

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Trump can certainly pick his audience.

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How in the world can you call millionaire Trump who’s closest association with the country is when he hits his golf ball in the rough a country boy? Because his grasp of English grammar is at a fifth grade level? This is a man that studies weakness then figures out the best con to get what he wants, no better than any TV evangelist, even though they actually are smarter than him because they legally don’t pay taxes on their fortunes. But then those same red areas of the country are the biggest contributors to whacky religions, so it makes perfect sense.

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Perhaps Hillary kept changing her support?[agnostic.com]

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Good read,makes you think. the haves,and the have nots,and Hillary asks "What happened"?

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It raises some very interesting points.

Petter Level 9 June 26, 2018
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I would largely agree. I moved from Berkeley to rural Iowa partly because of how dismissive coastal liberals have become about the flyover states. Most of my current town are Trump voters, they are just normal human beings who voted for Trump because they know they've been getting screwed for decades, and Clinton promised more of the same. It still surprises me (it shouldn't) how often I meet a coastal liberal who insists anyone who voted for Trump is a knuckle-dragging racist idiot. Yes, there are those, but most Trump voters are just hard working decent people.

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