Posted on 08/18/2016 2:17:23 PM PDT by drewh
An August presidential poll out of Virginia shows the heightening of a long-existing trend: There is a big, big rural-urban split in the battleground state.
The rural southwest area is heavily in favor of Donald Trump, the Washington Post/ABC News poll found, while the DC suburbs are by far Clinton country.
Follow Dave Wasserman @Redistrict Trump leads Clinton by 26% in SWVA (vs. 22% Romney lead) but Clinton leads by 45% in inner NOVA (vs. 26% Obama '12): https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/trump-unpopularity-fuels-wide-lead-for-clinton-in-new-virginia-poll/2016/08/15/ea0e1540-6307-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_vapoll-735a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory 9:20 AM - 16 Aug 2016 Photo published for Trump unpopularity fuels wide lead for Clinton in new Virginia poll Trump unpopularity fuels wide lead for Clinton in new Virginia poll Disdain for the GOP nominee outweighs concern about the Democratic nominee. washingtonpost.com 13 13 Retweets 19 19 likes And this rural-urban divide persists nationwide. Hillary Clinton led Trump by 26 points in urban areas in a recent poll, also from the Washington Post. But in rural areas, Trump led Clinton by 20 points.
This phenomenon isn't new in fact, the latest poll numbers look a lot like the exit poll figures from 2012's presidential race. Four years ago, Obama won urban areas by 26 points, according to exit polls, while Romney won rural areas by 20 points.
In fact, if you line up U.S. counties from most urban to most rural there was a nearly uninterrupted sort of gradation effect to how people voted in 2012.
And this shows one major aspect of how Obama won urban areas have way more people (duh). Here's how that above gradation breaks down when you look at those urban-to-rural counties by population size:
Rural demographics mirror Trump supporter demographics
Rural voters heavily lean toward supporting Trump, so it's no surprise that the stats that describe America's rural areas also happen to describe Trump supporters quite well. Trump does particularly well among older, white and non-college-educated Americans.
And as it happens, rural areas are older than the rest of the nation the median age in rural areas is around 40, compared to 37 for the rest of the country, according to a report from the Housing Assistance Council, a group that promotes affordable housing in rural areas.
Likewise, rural areas tend to be less educated than urban areas.
In my rural county (just next door to Indianapolis) the Dems can barely get anyone to run for most offices!
I think you have!
Quite interesting!
Why is one group demonized for voting, and another glorified? (Rhetorical - I already know the answer)
Likewise, rural areas tend to be less educated than urban areas.
More educated beyond their intelligence maybe.
I guess we’ll really find out if/when we are hit by an apocalyptic event.
Derived from this article:
I always get a kick out of city folk who think organic somehow makes the product better, and that in their twisted PC minds believe that American farmers are producing poison to feed them and the world....
Like the difference between NYC and upstate NY
California, Washington, Colorado....even Texas
Truth is nig cities have more dems
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I’ve lived in cities my entire life, but have always found the rural ethos more to my liking than an urban one.
Haven't seen them since, especially on the west coast. Most of the land mass in Wa, OR and CA is red, all on the east side of the states and in between the big cities.
We are outnumbered by the cities, but own so much of the land mass of those 3 states all the food production, farm and timber lands and churches.
We need Bud Pierce as Governor so bad. At least if the city liberals come out in force all over the nation and vote for HRC, we can hold back some of the damage by electing R governors.
“Likewise, rural areas tend to be less educated than urban areas.”
This meme about Trump’s voters being uneducated is coming up quite often lately. Something’s up.
I'll leave Freud out of this.
The cities are where the 'services' are located.
I; too; was a city slicker until 13 years ago after retirement.
I love my small acreage and the joys (and sweat) that comes as part of the package.
I hears ya, Bro!
I shouldn’t type on my phone late at night
Should have been BIG cities
They just don’t get it. “Nobody I know is voting for him.” duh
“In the old days, say 2008 and prior, the less educated demographic spewed by the sick media used to be called blue collar workers.
Democrats USED to proclaim themselves as the champion of “the working man”, or this particular demographic. Hopefully a lot of Democrats are waking up to the reality that their party does NOT “look out for the little guy”!!!!!
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