alt Hacker NewsThe trend you described has been going on since Reagan, and the "rural poor" haven't budged. I have no expectation that attitudes will change in Rural America, not matter how bad things get.
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sokoloff • yesterday at 10:35 AM
It turns out when the other party runs on “we’re smarter and have better ideas than you and 25% of you are deplorable”, that people tend to increase their support for their current party rather than deciding “you know what? They’re right; we should switch to follow those coastal elites…”
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Way longer than that if you want to get technical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_conquer
In a nutshell that's why the South is so poor. They've been falling for this for generations.