Amps Honestly, I don’t know enough to say. I don’t have enough friends and family in that demographic to really know if jobs are the real issue. I mean, my guess is yes. There are a lot of people still without work, and probably in very real danger of evictions once current stays expire.
There was something posted a while back, and I can’t remember if it was here or on Facebook, sort of generalizing rural Republican values, but was specifically talking about people in rural Missouri, and to be fair, their summation is true for that part of the country. Their conclusion was this: Many Republicans, Trump supporter or just party line follower, have a mindset that is simply that they are just “against” anything liberal. It’s a dirty word to any “True American”. And even if they are on the fence, they don’t want to be outcasts in their small communities, so will generally just vote along with their neighbors.
Now obviously, this makes sweeping generalizations about which way voters in rural areas vote, but it’s not an untrue generalization, and it does explain where some of these silent supporters come from.
I can vouch for this way of thinking, given that I grew up in a very small rural community (less than 300 people in the town and I lived 5 miles outside it….nearest neighbor was 2 miles away) and this is definitely how I see things playing out with the people I went to high school with. It’s infuriating and sad all at the same time.
