[BuffaloJack]

The reason “the white working class” abandoned the Democrats is that most “white working class” people hate commies.

[Wallace T.]

Look at the short lived Presidential campaign of Jim Webb, a Democrat of the Harry Truman type: moderate on social issues, strong on defense, liberal on economics. He could not get any traction among modern day Democrat primary voters. It is also noteworthy that old union strongholds like Michigan and Wisconsin have ended the “closed shop” rule, and West Virginia, once dominated by the United Mine Workers, may well join them. Look at maps showing where Trump has his greatest support, outside his home state of New York. Appalachia, from western Pennsylvania to eastern Kentucky, is a Trump stronghold.