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Voices from Democratic Counties Where Trump Won Big
Among Donald Trumpās supporters, the real estate mogulās victory was akin to a revolution, a mandate delivered en masse by working class voters sidelined in the modern economy.
āOn Election Night, I couldnāt believe it was happening. I was up late watching every state go Trump and I was baffled,ā said Sue Stavish-OāBoyle, a long-time Democrat from Forty Fort, Pennsylvania who voted enthusiastically for Trump. āI thought, wow, I canāt believe it! The little people have a voice!ā
There was a lot of that. Trumpās victory was no less shocking to the 65.3 million who voted for Hillary Clinton. And the problem was not only that pollsters and pundits failed to foresee that former Democrats like Stavish-OāBoyle in the Rust Belt would flip to Trump. It was that many Clinton supporters simply didnāt know anyone personally voted for the man. And vice versa. The country is not only divided, it is separated. For decades, researchers pointed out that shifting demographicsāincluding the tendency among those with advanced degrees to move away from where they grew upāour communities have grown more ideologically homogenous. More and more, we live among people who vote like we do. According to the most recent election data, nearly half of usā48%āreside in whatās known as ālandslide county,ā where 60% or more of the population votes for the same candidate. In 1976, that number was 27%, according to Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing, the authors of the 2008 book, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart.
This kind of ideological segregation gives rise to the kind of comedic, if perhaps apocryphal, remark by New Yorker writer Pauline Kael after the 1972 election: āI canāt believe Nixon won. I donāt know anyone who voted for him.ā You heard the same from Londoners after the Brexit vote, which was carried by the countryside. The self-sorting makes common ground harder to find ā Clinton dismissing Trumpās base as a ābasket of deplorables,ā for instance ā and caricature and tribalism to creep into a pluralistic republic. The risk is seeing fellow Americans as The Other.
Full Story at the link provided.
Voices from Democratic Counties Where Trump Won Big
Among Donald Trumpās supporters, the real estate mogulās victory was akin to a revolution, a mandate delivered en masse by working class voters sidelined in the modern economy.
āOn Election Night, I couldnāt believe it was happening. I was up late watching every state go Trump and I was baffled,ā said Sue Stavish-OāBoyle, a long-time Democrat from Forty Fort, Pennsylvania who voted enthusiastically for Trump. āI thought, wow, I canāt believe it! The little people have a voice!ā
There was a lot of that. Trumpās victory was no less shocking to the 65.3 million who voted for Hillary Clinton. And the problem was not only that pollsters and pundits failed to foresee that former Democrats like Stavish-OāBoyle in the Rust Belt would flip to Trump. It was that many Clinton supporters simply didnāt know anyone personally voted for the man. And vice versa. The country is not only divided, it is separated. For decades, researchers pointed out that shifting demographicsāincluding the tendency among those with advanced degrees to move away from where they grew upāour communities have grown more ideologically homogenous. More and more, we live among people who vote like we do. According to the most recent election data, nearly half of usā48%āreside in whatās known as ālandslide county,ā where 60% or more of the population votes for the same candidate. In 1976, that number was 27%, according to Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing, the authors of the 2008 book, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart.
This kind of ideological segregation gives rise to the kind of comedic, if perhaps apocryphal, remark by New Yorker writer Pauline Kael after the 1972 election: āI canāt believe Nixon won. I donāt know anyone who voted for him.ā You heard the same from Londoners after the Brexit vote, which was carried by the countryside. The self-sorting makes common ground harder to find ā Clinton dismissing Trumpās base as a ābasket of deplorables,ā for instance ā and caricature and tribalism to creep into a pluralistic republic. The risk is seeing fellow Americans as The Other.
Full Story at the link provided.
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