This is one of many (many, many) bizarre things about Donald Trump (Donald Trump!) becoming the avatar (That Donald Trump!) of a rural backlash to status-obsessed international urban media elites (Donald! Trump!).https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/983830265461116930 …
Well, I don't want to go all JD Vance with some grand theory of the rural electorate. If you want a more direct answer, I suspect minority rural voters saw Trump for the vile racist he is, and either didn't vote for anyone, or didn't vote for him.
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A theory with which I agree; however it tends to vitiate the idea that white rural voters voted for Trump because of economic "despair."
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Clinton would have scare-quoted it too.
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