As a person that lives in Ohio in a formally blue area this is why

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35. They weren't banished

And I do blame them for voting against their interests. It IS racism and woman hating. Not sure how blue collar/middle class folks felt unwanted by the Dems as HRC's and the party's planks gave specific support to helping them across the board- education, job training, health care, social security, etc. while the Repugs cared only about the 1%.

These are the folks who complain about the "snowflakes" who are concerned about how minorities, women, LGBT, handicapped, etc are treated. Yet these tRump voters are snowflakes to me--they just can't stand that minorities or women may get ahead when false barriers are removed so they want the discrimination to continue. IMHO, the LBJ quote about convincing the lowest white man he is better than the greatest black man and he will gladly go along with what is against his own interests. And I will add if he can get his wife to submit to him and put other women down, he will go along with the tRump/Repug 1%-er agenda then, too. Trump's disdain for smart. independent women is another dog whistle to these types.