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Outside coastal cities an ‘other America’ has different values and challenges
The Manchester Guardian ^ | February 21, 2017 | Chris Arnade in Youngstown, Ohio

Posted on 02/21/2017 5:36:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Anthony Rice’s house in Youngstown, Ohio is a mile away from a river valley once filled with factories offering jobs. Many of those left in the 1980s, and with them, many residents.

His home is one of the few occupied on the street. Empty lots or boarded-up homes make up most of the block. He points to those remaining, listing his neighbors and their age. They are all over 70. “This neighborhood is okie-dokie, although not much goes down here”, he says. “Stores used to be all around here, but they mostly gone. The people left are either too old to move or waiting for someone to buy them out.”

The road itself is a patchwork of potholes. “This street hasn’t been paved in like forever. They just don’t care about us. But we used to that.”

Youngstown is the largest city in Mahoning County, Ohio, where Donald Trump narrowly lost a county Barack Obama won twice easily. That was partly because turnout in Youngstown – which is lower income, younger, and close to half African American – dropped by roughly 15%....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: maga; ohio; trump

1 posted on 02/21/2017 5:36:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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It’s like a documentary: Yokels in the Mist. We’ll try to not scare the adult Redneck as he waves his shotgun around in a primitive dominance display. We approach, disguised as one of their own saying “Can I get me a hunting’ license here?”


2 posted on 02/21/2017 5:44:24 PM PST by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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3 posted on 02/21/2017 5:48:13 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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4 posted on 02/21/2017 5:48:43 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is what is left of middle America thanks to globalists like Bush 41 & 43 & Clinton & Obama....and no, it was not an accident. These polices were put in place to ship the middle class wealth of United States citizens across the world.


5 posted on 02/21/2017 5:50:19 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: bigbob

Great graphics!


6 posted on 02/21/2017 5:52:59 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Interesting article, but full of half-truths. Voter turnout in SW Pennsylvania (which has a lot in common with Youngstown) wasn't depressed, it was at record levels. Our precinct crossed the 80% thresh hold. Typically, we are lucky do break 60% in a presidential election.

Enthusiasm was slightly higher for Romney than McCain (most likely because of Obama fatigue), but nobody turned them out like Trump.

We had voters in line 45 minutes before our polling place opened at 7 am.

7 posted on 02/21/2017 5:54:08 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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THey’re the best tools I’ve seen for visualizing just where the battle lines are being drawn. I think it’s fair to think of the Clinton map as a map of the Ruling Class power structure, and the Trump map is “We the People”. The election proved that “We” can win, but we don’t have forever, because look at where the demographics are heading...


8 posted on 02/21/2017 5:56:47 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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Excellent graphics to demonstrate why the Founding Fathers believed that the electoral college was essential in a republic and for the future of America. Without the electoral college, the brain dead, freeloading morons would have prevailed in 2016. Thanks.


9 posted on 02/21/2017 6:03:10 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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The article author must be someone who has never really had it half-bad or worse.

I read the article, as written for the townspeople of London, in the U.K., who get all their news from BBC.


10 posted on 02/21/2017 6:03:16 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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The Guardian is still trying to make the thing about race, and it isn't a fit. They did, however, report honestly that the Muslim citizens do not feel threatened by Trump. It must have hurt to publish that.

The "real" America - the author is correct in dismissing that locution as condescending - that America is not simply angry at being abandoned by the bicoastal political establishment, it is angry at the conviction that the abandonment is permanent, as is the contempt, the condescension, the sense that the only thing important about it is the ability to manipulate it. Now the political establishment is fighting a scorched-earth Fabian campaign against Trump and Trump isn't the problem, because Trump or no, that sense of abandonment is going to cause political earthquakes until it is addressed directly and honestly. And no one in the current political establishment is interested in that.

11 posted on 02/21/2017 6:15:43 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Bump


12 posted on 02/21/2017 6:34:10 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: KarlInOhio
Nailed it!

Does the author know that the election's over? Trump won BTW.

13 posted on 02/21/2017 6:43:35 PM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: bigbob

Those are outstanding. Printing them for sharing


14 posted on 02/21/2017 7:03:56 PM PST by Figment
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bkmk


15 posted on 02/21/2017 8:27:21 PM PST by bitt (The most insidious power that the media has, is the power to ignore - Chris Plante, WMAL)
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