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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.
Urbal / rural split is old as the hills, older than the US, for sure.
“Only racist, sexist, homophobes vote for Trump.”
Well, if that’s how it has to be...
Where voters cause trouble for each other is trying to impose one size fits all solutions. Having a big barbecue and live band on your patio in Manhattan will summon stormtroopers with guns in minutes, while out in the sticks you are the first line police and need your own gun.
those in N VA who work for the cartel are anti-Trump. What a surprise. Hope they all resign when he wins.
‘Thought it said Rural Retirement.
Moving on.
less educated = no college = less brainwashed
It really is true. Working class whites are the last group that it’s OK to hate on. They have to take it all. From everybody.
The kulaks are angry, and rightfully so.
That’s ok. We can take it and still go do our jobs tomorrow. What we can’t stand is most of the other “aggrieved” parties not manning up, carrying their own weight and taking responsibility for policing their own hoods. Instead they willingly enslave themselves deeper to the Federal Leviathan.
Same thing up north in Pennsyltucky.
“...while the DC suburbs are by far Clinton country.”
Also known as NOVA (N. VA), the immigrant population there is astounding. Go to the Tyson’s Corner Mall on a weekend and you’ll see a veritable United Nations. Very large percentage of Muslims.
Hispanics, Asians, Muslims - all big time democratic voters who for the most part would be happy to see the 2nd Amendment thrown into the dustbin of history.
Thanks to the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act......
There aren’t enough rural voters to make a difference in national elections.
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“It really is true. Working class whites are the last group that it’s OK to hate on. They have to take it all. From everybody.”
Tell me about it. I have been screwed over in important ways for being white, for being a man, for being straight, for being conservative.
“Bitter Clingers” Part Deux.
But what about the resentment of Trump supporters in the urban areas?
Is welfare leeching and penis envy fueling support for Shillery?
And we grow the food them city folk eat...
Good one!
Proverbs 17:16 New International Version
Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,
when they are not able to understand it?
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