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I think it has to do with them being "villified" as backwards hicks in the media, and no doubt by many a city dweller. It gets people defensive, and there may also be a traditional aspect that hasn't been revised. Just my thoughts on it though
The irony is that they tried to prove how smart and un-hickish they are by blindly following someone who panders and talks down to them, and is also completely dishonest.
Also a lot of rural Americans see city dwellers as the enemy, I grew up with a dad that thought that way.
But... Trump is the archetypical New York slick that rural America surely despises. So what gives?
Cognitive dissonance
Deregulation, making it easier for them to drive their barely running cars and trucks that drink oil faster than gas. Cutting social programs so that their taxes do not go to anything woke, only to subsidizing corporations and billionaires profits. Small government and tons of tariffs to make them commie pay for ruining American industry!
You underestimate how easy that is to do in a city.
That's true, I wonder where that came from.
Yeah, the "hold my beer" theory of voter reaction. I get it. What I don't understand is, even if I desperately wanted to do the inverse of what annoying dems wanted me to do, I wouldn't be ready to objectively hurt myself and my family just to piss them off.
I'm right there with ya. I can't wrap my head around it either
You are really going to like this:
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about
Or, the original title: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
Written in 2016, still perfectly on point.
I do remember reading that. I have mixed feelings. I can excuse the first time the second time though... that's harder.