Trump’s Victory Was Built on a Unique Coalition of White Voters
9/11 has lost most of it’s heat and swelter as time is the best healer. It has now transformed into 11/8 to give us something to bake and broil in. We have the unusual honor of having “a president-elect who a great many Americans regard as the spawn of Satan. A dimwitted, mean spirited spawn embodying the nation’s worst flaws, failings and nightmares”. He has also been termed as a lunatic liar. Why should this happen to us? A pattern seen in the Third World descends on the forerunner of the First World. We will keep debating this issue over and over for a long time. The print media is full of all sorts of opinions and suggestions. I found one of them very informative and interesting Donald Trump’s Victory Was Built on Unique Coalition of White Voters by Nicholas Confessore and Nate Cohn in the Nov. 9, 2016 issue of The New York Times. It is a long article. I have shared with you here a very relevant part:
“Donald J. Trump’s America flowered through the old union strongholds of the Midwest, along rivers and rail lines that once moved coal from southern Ohio and the hollows of West Virginia to the smelters of Pennsylvania.
It flowed south along the Mississippi River, through the rural Iowa counties that gave Barack Obama more votes than any Democrat in decades, and to the Northeast, through a corner of Connecticut and deep into Maine.
And it extended through the suburbs of Cleveland and Minneapolis, of Manchester, N.H., and the sprawl north of Tampa, Fla., where middle-class white voters chose Mr. Trump over Hillary Clinton.
One of the biggest upsets in American political history was built on a coalition of white voters unlike that of any other previous Republican candidate, according to election results and interviews with voters and demographic experts.
Mr. Trump’s coalition comprised not just staunchly conservative Republicans in the South and West. They were joined by millions of voters in the one time heartlands of 20th-century liberal populism — the Upper and Lower Midwest — where white Americans without a college degree voted decisively to reject the more diverse, educated and cosmopolitan Democratic Party of the 21st century, making Republicans the country’s dominant political party at every level of government.”
