According to David Brooks, “we anti-Trumpers' are 'the bad guys.” Hmm!
, and urban areas are disproportionately populated by people of color. Rural voters may have legitimate economic concerns but, as white people, many were also drawn in by Trump’s drumbeat of racial grievances. One study looking at three cultural differences that contribute to the rural-urban political divide found that different
—disagreeing that white people benefit from baked-in social advantages—between urban and rural Americans appear “to explain about three-quarters of the urban-rural gap in voting for Trump,” far more so than gun ownership and evangelical Christianity.As evidence of the way economic stagnation in certain places has boosted Trump’s appeal, Brooks points out that “in 2020, Biden won only 500 or so counties, but together they are responsible for 71 percent of the American economy.
Yes, Biden won fewer counties than Trump—because the counties he won were jampacked with people. Trump’s were jampacked with empty land, which is not entitled to the franchise. It stands to reason, then, that the Biden counties have a greater economic output; they are full of people, most of whom have jobs. That’s how the economy works. But urban poverty is still a reality in this country, even as major cities have undergone substantial gentrification in recent decades.
In other words, Trump’s strongest base is not those white, undereducated people who have found themselves on the losing side of the American dream. In 2016, among white people without college degrees who supported Trump, made more than the median American household income. That same year, 1 in 5 white Trump voters without a college degree reported a household income greater than $100,000.
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