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In reply to the discussion: Why Republican women still voted for Trump [View all]bearsfootball516
(6,712 posts)Population, about 75,000. But it's surrounded by small towns, Selma, Gaston, Cowan, etc.
I interacted with a lot of these people for my job. I can tell you, nobody moves into those towns from outside. I'd be willing to bet that 95 percent or higher of their populations are people who were born there, raised there, got a job there and never left.
They've never been more than 75-100 miles outside of their town. They have no idea what a big city is like. They're more than content to live in their small town of 3,000 people and do the same thing, day after day.
And they absolutely hate change. So when Obama was elected, they were terrified. And when Trump ran on his "Make America Great Again" slogan, they heard the dog whistle loud and clear, it meant to go back to before Obama was president.
They didn't care what kind of insulting remarks Trump made, they just wanted "their" America back. Their white, uneventful, don't upset the status quo America.