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.
We got all kinds of resentment. Step right up.
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Chief seer and prognosticator.
But it makes for a great county-by-county map.
Here’s the next national talking point...
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Frightened, racist white people afraid of losing power.
Country versus Court...it has always been thus.
I know... ;^)
Power over WHAT?!
If you are a conservative in Manhattan ou are the mocked, the scorned, and the unwanted
... the bill payer...
Yes and that too
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