I think it has to do with them being “villified” as backwards hicks in the media, and no doubt by many a city dweller. It gets people defensive, and there may also be a traditional aspect that hasn’t been revised. Just my thoughts on it though
Comment on Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural Americans
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Rural voters have long been a cornerstone of Trump’s base
I’ve never understood that. Why would honest, hard-working Americans root for a convicted criminal billionaire? It seems like the very definition of self-harm to me.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
DrFistington@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The irony is that they tried to prove how smart and un-hickish they are by blindly following someone who panders and talks down to them, and is also completely dishonest.
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Its less that and “one side calls me the backbone of America and the other side calls me an idiot hick”
The vast majority of people are driven purely by feelings.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Also a lot of rural Americans see city dwellers as the enemy, I grew up with a dad that thought that way.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
But… Trump is the archetypical New York slick rural America surely despise. So what gives?
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Cognitive dissonance
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Deregulation, making it easier for them to drive their barely running cars and trucks that drink oil faster than gas. Cutting social programs so that their taxes do not go to anything woke, only to subsidizing corporations and billionaires profits. Small government and tons of tariffs to make them commie <insert racist teen here> pay for ruining American industry!
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s true, I wonder where that came from.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Yeah, the “hold my beer” theory of voter reaction. I get it. What I don’t understand is, even if I desperately wanted to do the inverse of what annoying dems wanted me to do, I wouldn’t be ready to objectively hurt myself and my family just to piss them off.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m right there with ya. I can’t wrap my head around it either
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You are really going to like this:
cracked.com/…/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-t…
Or, the original title: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
Written in 2016, still perfectly on point.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I do remember reading that. I have mixed feelings. I can excuse the first time the second time though… that’s harder.
pinheadednightmare@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Because they were raised to vote Republican no matter what.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Fox News
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Education correlates with willingness to vote for Democrats and progressives.
Conservative news stations like the Murdoch’s networks dominate cable news and are very high ranking on Sattelite. Last few years many local broadcast stations were also bought out by conservatives.
Another nail in the coffin is fossil fuels. Coal and Oil are the lifebloods of some regions like the Bakken Shelf of North Dakota. They’re afraid of the environmental policies.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
It’s a coalition of bad ideas.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hey, that asshole who’s never worked a day in his life because he had a rich daddy and cheats on his taxes seems like a really trustworthy guy. What I like the most about him is the fact that he would never want to have a beer with me, and if he somehow did, it would be the most painful experience in my life. He really gets me!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Why would honest, hard-working Americans root for a convicted criminal
Stupid. The answer is stupid.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Religion. Republicans have tied themselves to religion so hard that anyone devoted to a Christian god will vote for any Republican. Doesn’t matter who.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 5 weeks ago
The isolation leads to a lack of news. A lot of information is coming from church groups. People are told bad things are coming and they latch on to it.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And rapist.
And coastal elite blue state born rich snob.
Things they’re supposed to hate. But hey, he said he hated the same people they do and constantly spews vile rhetoric that they like, and that’s all they needed to throw their support behind him.
These people are amoral. It’s that simple.
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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_core@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Its ‘eye-gor’