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Is 'Rural Resentment' Driving Voters To Donald Trump? (here comes the next MSM talking point!!)
National Public Radio ^ | August 18, 2016 9:00 ET | DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN Twitter

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; 2016swingstates; bitterclingers; rural; urban; va2016
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To: drewh

Rural folks respect those that leave us the he!! alone and live as Americans.


21 posted on 08/18/2016 2:46:15 PM PDT by soycd
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To: drewh

More media gaslighting


22 posted on 08/18/2016 2:46:53 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: drewh

NEWSFLASH, Democrat controlled media idiots: Trump does well with educated (working) whites also.


23 posted on 08/18/2016 2:48:12 PM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: dsc

>“Likewise, rural areas tend to be less educated than urban areas.”

They underestimate our education at their own learning expense.


24 posted on 08/18/2016 2:48:30 PM PDT by soycd
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To: drewh

Cities are mostly dem Rest of areas arent


25 posted on 08/18/2016 2:49:42 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Its more than that...its an appeal to fence sitters to not forget about their prerequisite white guilt.


26 posted on 08/18/2016 2:53:13 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: drewh
Likewise, rural areas tend to be less educated than urban areas.

Sort of reminds me of those conversations where the other feller says "don't know why you don't like me," and then slaps you in the face. There's a certain lack of education there, to be sure, but it may not be where NPR thinks it is.

27 posted on 08/18/2016 2:53:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: drewh

Rural vs. urban...
Workers vs. the entitled.
Horse sense vs. progressive nonsense.
America lovers vs. America insulters.
Authentic men and women vs. metrosexuals, queers and pajama boys.
Rugged individuals vs. pussies.
Think I got it...


28 posted on 08/18/2016 2:54:21 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: drewh

actually it is Urban Hate

Cities have become disgusting sewers and are no longer really America


29 posted on 08/18/2016 2:56:56 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Exile Barack, Exile the Wookie, Exile Malia, Exile Shasha)
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To: drewh
So independent, rugged, stalwart Americans are behind Trump, while pussified, metrosexual weenies are backing Hillary?

Okay. I know which camp I want to be in.

30 posted on 08/18/2016 2:59:00 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: soycd

“They underestimate our education at their own learning expense.”

If they could learn, they wouldn’t be leftards.


31 posted on 08/18/2016 3:00:20 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: IronJack
Oh Trump has some pussified, metrosexual weenies "supporting" him too. They just wet the bed everytime he says something the left gets offended over.
32 posted on 08/18/2016 3:05:08 PM PDT by Kudsman (Hillary has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. DJTrump 6/22/16)
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To: drewh

Well, it is part of it. Us people who don’t live in congested cities are sick of smarmy jack-wagon city folks running the show and stealing our money and passing laws to please their liberal sensibilities. Sick of it!


33 posted on 08/18/2016 3:06:45 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: drewh
Is 'Urban Resentment' Driving Voters To Hillary Clinton?
34 posted on 08/18/2016 3:10:03 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Kudsman

There are probably very few of those, and I suspect they’ll have nervous breakdowns before the election.


35 posted on 08/18/2016 3:13:26 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: oblomov

U need a bigger backyard....


36 posted on 08/18/2016 3:14:06 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

No it’s the dumb ass Obama’s policies.


37 posted on 08/18/2016 3:19:20 PM PDT by ully2
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To: oblomov

Rational is where you fit, I would say.


38 posted on 08/18/2016 3:22:33 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: dsc

“Humans appear to have some need to look down on someone; there’s just a basic tribalistic impulse in all of us. And if you’re an elite white professional, working-class whites are an easy target: You don’t have to feel guilty for being a racist or a xenophobe. By looking down on the hillbilly, you can get that high of self-righteousness and superiority without violating any of the moral norms of your own tribe.”
-J.D. Vance


39 posted on 08/18/2016 3:33:14 PM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: beef

Putting that in my Glossary of Quotations.


40 posted on 08/18/2016 3:40:10 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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