The white folks dying from drug overdoses are mostly Dems and their kids.
From what I’ve read, the worst afflicted - lower income whites in places like Mississippi and West Virginia - have only a moderate Democrat tilt.
-The white folks dying from drug overdoses are mostly Dems and their kids.-
You’re one of those Pollyanna people always looking for the ray of sunshine or the silver lining.
The only problems is that they will still vote often.
I don’t think so; here in the northeast many young whites in wealthy areas are using heroin - we’ve even changed laws to treat dealers as murderers (which we never did for the urban drug plague). I suspect many young people are simply despairing because they have no future (or are being worked to death to make ends meet), so they medicate themselves. My area has seen a large increase in DUIs as well, and many aren’t kids; people of all ages are under tremendous pressure financially.
This may explain Trump’s support levels, as people look for anyone who will talk about jobs. For Obama and his base, this never meant anything at all - and it shows in how he governed.