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I’ve lived in flyover country all my life. I’ve watched the process of polarization that led to Trump.

This is a great analysis of that. I’m a bit rusty on my stats, but it’s explained in the text. Basically, it’s saying racism and class warfare are just easy issues to manipulate, but really it’s the economics. The coasts and big cities do ignore the middle of the country, that’s true. For the average person it’s not malicious, they aren’t aware of the problems for the most part. For people who should be aware of it, either they aren’t good at economics or they aren’t selling their plans very well.