I was in Pacific County in the summer. There were a lot of Trump signs.
Washington state has been overrun by the enviro whackies. The little towns out by the coast, Aberdeen and Hoquiam, that used to prosper from fishing and timber have become quiet little left-overs of former prosperity.
The Seattle-ites all think the economy is grand with the tech companies and all the new buildings going up. But we have huge homeless encampments and a lot of unemployed folks. It is a classic example of the elites and the suck up to elites squeezing out the working class and the small business owners to create the kind of scenario of lords and ladies and then peasants with no middle class.
Also, I’m sure the people with electric cars do not realize that for most of the country the electricity is provided by the coal mines that Shillary vowed to shut down. Here in the Northwest we have a lot of hydro power, but the greenies would also like to breach the damns to provide salmon access.
Years back, when the same decline in Oregon started, we were on vacation up there. My wife made the prescient observation that of all the cars we saw, the newer ones were from out of state, with the rust buckets belonging to the locals.
Someone there said that Oregon's economy was like a three-legged stool: Fishing, Timber, and Tourism - and that Fishing and Timber had been kicked out. You could see the creeping poverty moving in.