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In reply to the discussion: Why can't Democrats win in rural areas? [View all]ismnotwasm
(42,674 posts)59. I'm in a rural area visiting my daughter
Eastern Washington. Cute little town.
It has a surprising left leaning minority, my daughter teaches out here. She says the kids still use gay as a slur, as well as towelhead as well as other fucked up terms. What she tells them, is, if they plan on being successful anywhere else, they need to knock it off, cause the world is very big with many kinds of people. They listen to her, a little.
But yeah, Im in a part of the country where Trump won the illegal election is spray painted at a rest stop port a potty.
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Much of rural America has turned into news deserts over the past few decades
bearsfootball516
Nov 2021
#1
& Fox on steroids, aka social media with its RW favouring algorithms, plus RW white wing hate radio
Celerity
Nov 2021
#4
yep. and RW radio makes fox possible. the answer to the question is Republican talk radio
certainot
Nov 2021
#65
That's why republicans are so set-against expanding broadband internet to rural areas....
George II
Nov 2021
#57
Sad that when they win in urban areas they refuse to vote for legislation directed to urban areas.
George II
Nov 2021
#60
Mostly white people . Even Large numbers of white people outside rural areas vote Republican
JI7
Nov 2021
#3
The places we lose are largely white . There are some exceptions like Oregon and Vermont
JI7
Nov 2021
#13
Then talking about "losing rural areas" without including the race component isn't helpful.
WhiskeyGrinder
Nov 2021
#17
I live in a rural area that kept reelecting Democrats because Democrats spelled out exactly
WhiskeyGrinder
Nov 2021
#6
People with water wells and septic systems consider themselves independent and self reliant
Klaralven
Nov 2021
#16
This anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-trade, anti-government policy benefits big corporations...
hunter
Nov 2021
#100
Big corps park profits offshore, have fleets of lawyers to deal with regs, move operations abroad
Klaralven
Nov 2021
#105
The big guys ought to be able to "cope" as they usually have a hand in writing the regulations.
hunter
Nov 2021
#110
Rural U.S. men are convinced the Democratic are going to take their guns, they stopped voting when
ShazamIam
Nov 2021
#18
Nor did I claim that you did. My point was about the Republicans taking up guns + religion
ShazamIam
Nov 2021
#61
This is the sixth paragraph of his Jan. 12, 1971 governor's inaugural address
misanthrope
Nov 2021
#130
Rural America see's Democrats as coastal elites who make fun of country folks...
honest.abe
Nov 2021
#21
They thought Trump was qualified to be POTUS and voted for him in droves. Twice.
BlueStater
Nov 2021
#133
The less well traveled also have no concept that the US is not the most exceptional country.
Lonestarblue
Nov 2021
#66
They redid the districts here about 10 years ago. It is why Rep. Dahlkemper only served two years.
appleannie1
Nov 2021
#118
Having had a small farm, most like to keep things simple, more relaxed and less strenuous
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2021
#32
Hate radio, fox, generations of racism, peer pressure. "Yer with us or yer agin us." Had someone
Evolve Dammit
Nov 2021
#39
"This is more cultural that's at play and identity politics that's at play than economic policies,"
gulliver
Nov 2021
#41
agreed that guns is a probably the single biggest reason (I'm also in red PA)
Amishman
Nov 2021
#131
Rurals have reinforcing genealogy, religious, business networks hyped with social media
bucolic_frolic
Nov 2021
#56
I wonder if part of the answer might be to design ads that speak to at least some of these
karynnj
Nov 2021
#69
I don't think we reach out to them. I remember when Bernie went to West Virginia and Kentucky?
ratchiweenie
Nov 2021
#98
Just 25% of the vote Trump got in MI came from counties considered rural or mostly rural.
Kaleva
Nov 2021
#107
Frankly they're dumb as fck, filthy disease-spreading covidiots that are horrible to be around
traitorsgalore
Nov 2021
#116
Vicious cycle of peer pressure, Fascist radio, illiteracy/semi-literacy,
Roisin Ni Fiachra
Nov 2021
#138