As news of Trump’s taxes broke, he goes off script at a rally in Pennsylvania

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35. It's a very pretty area

and I can see why folks there would lean "conservative" in terms of them passing on generational practices and survival skills which involve "self sufficiency" due to not being close to highly urban areas....and then have someone ("the government&quot come in and disrupt them. However from a political standpoint, the elected leaders from that camp have tended to be tone deaf, imposing homogeneous "one size fit all" policies that cannot even come close to addressing the cultural and economic diversity of this country.

I think the "change" may be because of a flight to "exburbia" in the '80s & '90s, to western Chester County and into Lancaster County, from the older and more developed rim counties of Philly like Montgomery & Delaware Counties, and that tended to dilute the sentiment of some of those who were native there.

This particularly happened when large office parks were opened up in Montgomery County and Chester County making the further west counties a "rim" around the King of Prussia area. And those who moved out there were used to having the same type of infrastructure that had been standard in the older suburban developments... So they began to realize the value of "government" - especially when the wells dried up and the state highways going through their areas were considered "secondary" and "tertiary" roads by PennDOT when it came to snow removal. I.e., I remember back during the 1994 ice storms when so many in the western burbs screamed about 202 and 30 being considered "secondary" roads (with I-95 & I-76 as "primary&quot , which delayed them being cleared, after which the state abruptly ran out of salt for both the roads and consumers and they were completely SOL (but still had to get to those office parks).