Rural, backwater, under-educated, fundicongelical, low-info folks supported the trumphole by a large margin, and have historically been lock-step RWers. Those places where they live are isolated and way off the highway- which is fine, if you like that sort of life. But they are also the areas most in need of some fresh genetic material.O Really wrote:"He who represents himself has a fool for a client - and an idiot for a lawyer."
These guys make the old joke about "you might be a redneck if you go to family reunions looking for dates" not so funny. To carry on in that same vein, however, it appears their "family tree does not fork."
Probably Trump supporters, too.
The whole damned area where I come from in Lower Alabamistan has been economically depressed since before the Great Depression, and suffering from low, no or negative population growth for decades. My HS class graduated 99 kids in '75; at my 30th reunion in '05 they graduated about 42. Folks leave, especially kids; few come back. New folks come in on occasion, bur few stay, and their kids GTF out. Jobs are few, all low-paying. You're miles from competent, well-equipped heathcare and overall quality of health is inferior, due to smoking and bad diets on top of poor health care. Housing market is almost non-existent, so you build if you can or, yes, move into a trailer, or a house that is older than you are and in ill repair. Roads are crumbling- literally. Coffee County, AL is the third world, in virtually every sense. I truly think the gene pool in these places is in serious danger of toxicity.
It would explain so much.