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In reply to the discussion: You guys can't keep doing this. Working class white man here. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)or maybe four...that historically voted Democratic, supposedly flipped & voted for Trump, to get rid of the trade agreements, which directly meant that factories and businesses closed down in their states & moved to other countries.
See comments by Michael Moore, who had his finger on the pulse of those working class men in the rust belt states. He predicted they'd vote for Trump. He's from there, lives there, they're his friends, and they were really angry at the Democrats.
So I think that's why. It's not all white working men in all states. It's those rust belt states. Michigan, etc. Pennsylvania, too. A lot of union guys.
I think it also may be true that demographics of the votes showed that overall the Democrats had lost ground with the white working class male as a group. Not all of them. Maybe not most of them. But they'd lost ground with that group, is what I read.
So it doesn't include all of your group, and there's no reason to be angry. Don't shoot the messengers of the data.
I'm part of a demographic, too. My demographic votes one way or another. I may or may not fit the mold in any given election, but why would I be angry about that?