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2016 Postmortem

DeminPennswoods

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6. talked to a presumptive Trump voter today

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Fri Nov 25, 2016, 11:20 PM

Nov 2016

We got into a discussion lamenting where all the good jobs went, i.e., mills and manufacturing and that jobs now don't pay much or come with many benefits. Then it was on to welfare and how not white, lazy people got all the benefits despite a member of this person's family getting SNAP/food stamps. The cuts to the SNAP program are just hitting now and this family member had her already meager allowance reduced even further. I sympathized and pointed out that the GOP legislature/congress was the entity that has caused this problem. But my words went in one ear and out the other. To this person it will always be "those other lazy people who know how to work the system to their benefit" that are the problem, not the Republicans.

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There's an asymmetrical perception issue between rural areas and big cities/metros [View all] YoungDemCA Nov 2016 OP

It doesn't really feel that way to me, and I live out here in the sticks. dawg Nov 2016 #1

To me it seems to be the opposite Nonhlanhla Nov 2016 #2

exactly, and most city folk are working class, radius777 Nov 2016 #4

the base of the modern day Dem party are metro areas radius777 Nov 2016 #3

i think it's the opposite with talk radio being what they mostly hear. but many big city people are JI7 Nov 2016 #5

talked to a presumptive Trump voter today DeminPennswoods Nov 2016 #6

the thing about how blacks and mexicans and immigrants and anyone non white is getting free stuff JI7 Nov 2016 #9

Yep DeminPennswoods Nov 2016 #11

I read an article years ago about how... Garrett78 Nov 2016 #7

Fox News is headquartered in NYC in the middle of Manhattan Yavin4 Nov 2016 #8

Yeah, all my partner's down state relatives who won't come to Chicago because of all the "shootings" Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2016 #10

In PA, 80% never leave the state DeminPennswoods Nov 2016 #12

Well, i will tell you this.... Adrahil Nov 2016 #13

Exactly, the idea that conservative whites will "put aside differences" radius777 Nov 2016 #14

It doesn't seem to be so one-sided IMNSHO.... Wounded Bear Nov 2016 #15

I know more rural Americans that have no more interest in guns or PufPuf23 Nov 2016 #17

Why should rural folks side with urban trend setters that misunderstand and belittle them? PufPuf23 Nov 2016 #16