Posted on 01/15/2017 5:20:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the weeks leading up to the inauguration, Yahoo News visited towns and cities across the country, speaking to voters who had supported Donald Trump in the election. As the shape of his administration emerged, we asked voters if they were happy with their choice and optimistic about the future. Here is some of what we found:
SANDY HOOK, Ky.—It used to be known as the most reliably Democratic county in America.
In a state that had long ago gone deep red, Elliott County, located here in the winding forested hills of remote eastern Kentucky, was a true anomaly. Since 1872, three years after the county was founded, the majority of voters here had backed a Democrat for president every four years. It was the longest streak for any county in the nation—and one that came to an abrupt end in November when Donald Trump overwhelmingly defeated Hillary Clinton by 44 points, his largest margin of victory in the state of Kentucky and one of the largest in the country.
To some, a Republican win seemed a long time coming. The population is predominately white and largely impoverished–working class people who once toiled in nearby steel mills and coal mines but have struggled to make ends meet as those jobs have vanished. But politics, like the land, had been passed down through generations, and a majority of residents remained solidly Democrat, a loyalty dating back to their fathers and grandfathers who earned their first paychecks building roads and public infrastructure as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
“(When you voted), it was either the Democrat, or it was the devil,” said Myron Lewis, a convenience store owner and native of Sandy Hook, the county seat. Lewis’s father worked in the mining industry....
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