Donald Trump received 70 percent of the primary vote in Buchanan County, Virginia, and 60 percent in Martin County, Kentucky. He is strongest in Appalachia because the biggest indicator of support for Trump, according to a survey by the RAND Corporation, is agreeing with the statement, "people like me don't have any say."
I live in Trump's America, where working-class whites
are dying from despair. They're dying from alcoholism, drug addiction
and suicide, trying to take away the pain of a half century's economic
and cultural decline. In the foothills of Appalachia, Wilkes County,
North Carolina, is second in the nation in income lost this century,
where the number of manufacturing jobs decreased from 8,548 in the year
2000 to about 4,000 today, according to Stateline.
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I think this hits the nail on the head. I think the fact that Trump is liked is because in fact he is on the side of the working guys.
ReplyDeleteYes though he's wrong on this: "Trump won't win the presidency, of course. If he's nominated conservatives will walk out of the Cleveland convention in July and run a third ticket candidate"
DeleteUS News and World Report is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the entire neocon NWO clan. I.e. the Bush family. I stopped reading it long ago.
ReplyDeleteUsed to get Time, Newsweek and USN&WR each week in Vietnam. Liked Newsweek the best, but they all bear little resemblance to those today.
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