Quote (Thor123422 @ 6 Jul 2018 04:41)
Considering, on average, liberal areas are vastly more successful than conservative areas, I'd say they're unrelated.
thats a crappy point, and I think you know it.
the big cities have always been more liberal than rural areas, coastal america has been significantly more liberal than the heartland for at least the last 50 years.
the economic developments of the past 40 or so years, globalization, the rise of china, nafta, the rise of silicon valley and the wall street, have almost nothing to do with liberal vs conservative - and they have all disproportionately benefitted the coastal and urban areas of the country while devastating rural america.
and, as others have pointed out: the suburbs are still much more wealthy and successful than inner cities. and lets not forget that the democratic constituency has been poorer than the republican one for almost a century until things flipped at some point during the obama era.
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Hillary gets to the core of the issue, without interpreting it right:
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"If you look at the map of the United States, there is all that red in the middle, places where Trump won," she said. "What that map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that own two thirds of America’s Gross Domestic product. I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, Make America Great Again, was looking backwards. You don’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women getting jobs, you don’t want to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are, whatever that problem is, I am going to solve it."
Clinton was the status quo candidate, while Trump stood for disruptive change. The parts of the country that have been on the sunny side of things in recent times voted for her, the status quo candidate, while the areas and people who have been on the losing end voted for disruption and change. Sounds quite logical, doesnt it? Well, I guess not to Ms. Clinton and her fanclub, who construe some sort of "moral victory" out of their embarrassing and soul-crushing election loss, because "she got the votes of the good folks", while her opponent got the votes of "the deplorables".
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 6 2018 07:24am