[Arthur McGowan]

Religion, guns, and xenophobia—the opiate of the masses in the Rust Belt.

[Kanzan]

This sounds like our doozy of a governor when she spoke at a wine-tasting fundraiser in Washington state and told them to never, ever buy Kansas wine. She gets such loving treatment by the Kansas press that it never occurred to her that some unenlightened reporter in Washington might actually print it.

[eleni121]

Religion, guns, and xenophobia

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Those three elements are positives but often reviled by the ruling liberal elite classes.

What really keeps rust belt types hanging on are unions and govt checks.