It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump

[haele]

12. They keep calling them "working class" when they're really suburban or commuting whites.

There are plenty of working class whites both in the cities and in truly rural areas that are solid democrats who didn't vote for Drumpf. It's the semi-skilled/skilled/professional whites who moved to the suburbs for "the schools", "the (protected) traditional community neighborhood" or some other nonsense rather than live near poor or city neighborhoods, that voted for Drumpf.

The whites who want to live in Pleasantville, where everyone knows their place and there's very little conflict of interests.
The ones who are fearful that they'll have to live in a community where people who are too much not like them might come and live, where they may have to moderate their actions or, heck, be nice to people they don't like.

The ones who are always whining for the good old days, when Mom was always there and Dad was out working half the day and calmly exhausted when he finally came home. Everyone had their role, and knew what they had to do, and the kids could be cluelessly happy as they toddled on through school to college, and magically become a grown up with a good paying job.

It seemed sooo easy back then - when you were a kid, or when your life revolved around your neighborhood or small town, and the rest of the world would just leave you alone (unless you got drafted, or a job offer somewhere else).

Haele