Dutch NW Iowa is famous for its religiosity and the people there functioned electorally sort of like Mormons, hating Trump for character reasons in the primaries but voting for him overwhelming in the general to save the Supreme Court (82.1%).https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/upshot/how-a-quiet-corner-of-iowa-packs-such-a-fierce-conservative-punch.html …
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Trump’s wiki used to have a quote from him to the effect: “People can’t believe I’m a Protestant” and that’s apt, because open braggadocio is so frowned upon in the Protestant North, the traditional backbone of the old school GOP.
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Now Southerners are of course Protestants too, but not really in the European sense. The religion is too loud and charismatic; it has too much personality for a Scandinavian or a German to feel comfortable. It’s fundamentally a Protestant spinoff.
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Trump basically ran as an old fashioned Democrat that drew support from the traditional alliance of Southerners and Northeast Catholics/urbanites in opposition to a stodgy Protestant culture of self-control.
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