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In reply to the discussion: I finally pinpointed what it is exactly that I resent the most about Trump voters [View all]jayschool2013
(2,607 posts)and they are few, have a college education, but fall into these areas:
1. Family members who are or have been in the military they are from rural areas and attended college (two went to West Point), but they're given to respecting authoritarian personalities and have bought into the myth that Republicans "support the troops" and agriculture, while Democrats do not.
2. Acquaintances (former fraternity brothers and friends of friends) who have grown up in a world of white-male privilege and have worked in traditional businesses as salespersons and managers. They have bought into the myth that tax cuts for the investor class and the gutting of the regulatory state simply is "freedom" at work, rewarding the earners and job-creators and punishing the undeserving. To them, Ayn Rand's world can't get here fast enough.
I live in Iowa, my family is in Nebraska, and I spent most of my adult life in Colorado, so those are the people of whom I speak. I went to graduate school at the University of Florida, but I don't have much exposure to rural Southerners, so I don't know what they think other than what I read in the news or see on "Florabama Shore" and other Confederate reality-porn TV shows.