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Showing Original Post only (View all)In the heart of Trump Country, his bases faith is unshaken [View all]
The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.
Steven Whitt fires up the coffee pot and flips on the fluorescent sign in the window of the Frosty Freeze, his diner that looks and sounds and smells about the same as it did when it opened a half-century ago. Coffee is 50 cents a cup, refills 25 cents. The pot sits on the counter, and payment is based on the honor system.
People like it that way, he thinks. It reminds them of a time before the world seemed to stray away from them, when coal was king and the values of the nation seemed the same as the values here, in Gods Country, in this small county isolated in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Everyone in town comes to his diner for nostalgia and homestyle cooking. And, recently, news reporters come from all over the world to puzzle over politics because Elliott County, a blue-collar union stronghold, voted for the Democrat in each and every presidential election for its 147-year existence.
Until Donald Trump came along and promised to wind back the clock.
Steven Whitt fires up the coffee pot and flips on the fluorescent sign in the window of the Frosty Freeze, his diner that looks and sounds and smells about the same as it did when it opened a half-century ago. Coffee is 50 cents a cup, refills 25 cents. The pot sits on the counter, and payment is based on the honor system.
People like it that way, he thinks. It reminds them of a time before the world seemed to stray away from them, when coal was king and the values of the nation seemed the same as the values here, in Gods Country, in this small county isolated in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Everyone in town comes to his diner for nostalgia and homestyle cooking. And, recently, news reporters come from all over the world to puzzle over politics because Elliott County, a blue-collar union stronghold, voted for the Democrat in each and every presidential election for its 147-year existence.
Until Donald Trump came along and promised to wind back the clock.
https://apnews.com/ee19ceb7cf0d4af4ab73c393708148bf/In-the-heart-of-Trump-Country,-his-base's-faith-is-unshaken
Can someone explain this? I just don't get it.
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They're ignorant assholes who can sway almost any election and whose numbers could grow
FiveGoodMen
Dec 2017
#40
+1, if the story was about suburban Tarrant county Texas then I'd pay more attention to it
uponit7771
Dec 2017
#14
All these articles fail to mention that "Trump Country," is an island that's quickly eroding.
Squinch
Dec 2017
#10
Same old shit. Where are the articles in those who have left places like Elliot County?
GulfCoast66
Dec 2017
#19
After they've taken their last breath of toxic Trump Air and the final shovel of foul Trump dirt is
Hugin
Dec 2017
#31
What happened? Fox, Sinclair and corporate media psych-ops. Aided by the new KGB Cyberforce.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2017
#42