Why can't Democrats win in rural areas?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

70. You might be correct about the gun issues later.

I can't recall that part. I mostly remembered that the GOP started putting pro-religious stuff in their party platform in 1980, and white evangelicals have been loyal Republican voters (as a group) since then.

Then it slowly evolved into Democrats being viewed as "Godless" and wrong about pretty much anything thereafter. If most Democrats were promoting gun control, then Republicans shouted they were going to take all their guns. If Democrats were promoting greater acceptance of the LGBTQ community, then Republicans started focusing on the "traditional family" and how those ideas of greater acceptance would somehow lead to greater harm to the innocent. Like sex with minor children was the goal of the Democratic party, or whatever.

Evangelical Christians are especially prone to "good vs evil" and "us vs them" ideas. They're main schtick is converting others to be just like them, or those people will basically be in the devil's hands.

Just look at how they act. Many of them don't even trust vaccines now because Democrats have almost universally endorsed them in this country.

Once they accepted a political party as being on THEIR side, in terms of religion, they've moaned about pretty much everything that Democrats have encouraged ever since. I've felt like saying, "Don't waste my time pretending that you're worried about gun control now. You don't like it because Democrats are suggesting it, and they're basically the party of the devil in your mind."

So many of them have a basic distrust in anything that Democrats promote. Democrats might have some nefarious ulterior motive, after all.