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In reply to the discussion: Rural living. [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)I talked to some of them; they simply couldn't, wouldn't, vote for Hillary Clinton. Just as there was a large contingent of "anybody but Trump" voters, there was also a large contingent of "anybody but Clinton" voters from the right. Some of that is the years of propaganda they've been conditioned with; the radios they're listening to as they go about their chores simply don't have anybody to listen to outside Beck or Limbaugh, and they are vulnerable to that propaganda. Some of it was misogyny, no doubt; around here, that misogyny comes from the pulpit. I have learned to deal, professionally, with some who don't treat me as a professional, going over and around to find a man. It's changing, though. My female students don't take a back seat to the boys, and my boys know better than to expect that from them. Young people are the future here, as well as everywhere else.
About half of those I talked to who felt that way wouldn't vote for either; they voted for Johnson.
And, of course, there were a few who really think Trump has their back. It won't take them long to realize THAT error.
Of course, in the end, it didn't matter. HRC won all of this state's electoral votes, and the popular vote. We delivered; and that includes rural areas. The region may not have voted blue overall, but plenty of these rural voters did.