Why rural America voted for Trump

El Paso Inc. ^ | January 9, 2017 | Robert Leonard, New York Times Contributor

[grobdriver]

They are part of a growing movement in rural America

Asshole lib still doesn't get it: It has always been so.

"Disastrous Trump presidency", my eye.

[ctdonath2]

There’s an ongoing popular meme (i.e.: concept, not to be confused with silly-captioned pictures) whereby introverts are constantly in need of being “explained”. I’m struck by the fact that extroverts _never_ are given the same “explain” treatment.

This article is the same concept: that rural folk’s choices & actions must be “explained” at length, as if they’re some outsider oddity ... never considering that maybe it’s the urban dwellers that really should be explained.

[Little Ray]

Well, if America is saved, men like that will be its salvation.

[Texas Fossil]

Thanks. A great post.

[Wuli]

The book and professor indoctrinated think themselves “educated” while life experience, moral character and observation make their less “educated” peers smarter where it counts.

[central_va]

More leftist navel gazing.

[central_va]

More leftist navel gazing.

[Little Ray]

Need to look at it from this point of view: rural folk are shrinking minority and nearly incomprehensible to city folk.

[Gaffer]

Frankly, I read this and I had to go over and reread parts of it. I STILL don’t understand this article, actually.

I got very side-tracked about some guy named Watts saying Republicans believe people are bad and Democrats believe the reverse.

All the other stuff, still doesn’t really explain this liberals view of “why Americans voted for Trump.”

IMO, goggledy gook words on paper.

[central_va]

Actually rural vs city is 50-50 especially if you add in the burbs.

[Gay State Conservative]

"Rural" America? The Former Twelfth Lady carried something like 250 of the nation's several thousand counties...almost all of which are located within 75 miles of the Atlantic,Pacific or Gulf.

The Rat Party has now been officially exposed as a coastal Party.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They are part of a growing movement in rural America\

I live in an urban area, and its growing here too.

[wbarmy]

We live in different philosophical worlds, with different foundational principles.

The author outs himself with that one line. The author knows that the conservatives believe in personal responsibility, claims that talking to Watts gave him this epiphany, and then puts that explanation of personal responsibility in the other world view.

He personally believes that something or someone else is responsible and that with enough control of those others, everybody else will act right of their own choice.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It views liberals as loathsome, misinformed and weak, even dangerous.

If the shoe fits...

[NorthstarMom]

It was hard to read because the writer could barely grasp what he was attempting to explain.

The people are bad vs people are good part was him trying to wrap his mind around personal responsibility. He saw that a belief in the doctrine of original sin tied into it and he clumsily conflated the ideas.

He’s on the edge of comprehension, but our beliefs are still foreign enough that he can quite articulate them to his fellow libs.

[central_va]

That’s funny. You are calling me a liberal? Ha.

[Noumenon]

As the saying goes, there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

[Gaffer]

You have a much, much better grasp of his awkwardness than I do. Thank you.

[proud American in Canada]

They sound like great young men.