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.
Aw, Geez, not this “what’s the matter with Kansas” sh*t again!!
Yup. It’s those bitter clingers again.
translation: Trump supporters are stupid geezer hicks.
rural “resentment”? I’d say frustration.
There’s only one answer to this. Farmers should cut back their production of food by 50%. Soon there wouldn’t be so many people living in cities.
In 1992 they were the Bubba vote that Clinton got. Only difference it was a serious three horse race.
If you look at voting precincts, you’ll see there is a hard & consistent division between Left & Right right on urban & rural divisions.
The article comes from the assumption that rural voters don’t have something to be pissed off about. What a bunch of azzhats!
“Likewise, rural areas tend to be less educated than urban areas.”
Proverbs 17:16 It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.
Trust me, there is NO way I resent not living NYC.
I once viewed a training video for farmers on how to calibrate their field sprayers.
The stuff they are putting down is very application specific. Too little and it won’t work. Too much and it will burn up their crops.
To calculate the right amount you need to know the properties of the spray tip you are using, the pressure in the tank, and the speed that the tractor is pulling the rig forward.
The guy in the tape pulled out a calculator and began plunking numbers into an equation. He was wearing Carhart coveralls and a Mail Pouch ballcap.
Blew away every stereotype you’ve ever had about “stupid hicks”.
Big surprise there. Those making their livelihoods off big government prefer big government candidates.
Only racist, sexist, homophobes vote for Trump.
Pray America wakes
Everybody laughs at a redneck...until their car breaks down.
Is the Dunning - Kruger effect driving the author of this article? I think yes!
Well when i get together his my hillbilly buddies, out here in the sticks, fer some moonshine n’ banjo playing n’ bible lern’n.. we talk about how we are gonna vote fer Trump..I mean if’n we can get our pick-up trucks started.
I live in Manhattan. I’ve done pretty well in the Obama economy, but I see the prosperity as a facade, behind which a depression continues to ravage the country.
So where do I fit in this narrative?
NEWSFLASH: voters want their representatives to represent their interests.
In the old days, say 2008 and prior, the “less educated” demographic spewed by the sick media used to be called “blue collar workers”.
“Blue Collar workers” are now politically worthless to the Democratic party since they’re typically white and very angry.
Since they don’t fit into Democratic plans, they are now given a label that dehumanizes them ... “less educated” or “non-college degree”.
This is one of many examples of why the Democratic party and their allies in the GOPe makes me want to projectile vomit.
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