Ibon wrote:...denigrating and villifying and joking about rural white americans and christians in the hinterland.
how can a white guy be discriminated against for being white by a society where white men are on the top rung? If you don't like being called a hillbilly by white city people then don't be a hillbilly! Or if you do like being a hillbilly then what does it matter? Do you want a ribbon?
Those Trump supporters out in the sticks aren't necessarily "economically disenfranchised" in fact trumps supporters were found in the primaries to make more than D supporters:
The median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000, based on estimates derived from exit polls and Census Bureau data. That’s lower than the $91,000 median for Kasich voters. But it’s well above the national median household income of about $56,000. It’s also higher than the median income for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters, which is around $61,000 for both.
In the country, regular people have 2 options, get educated and move away to the city where cost of living is high (but so is the pay), or don't and stay rural where pay is low, if available at all. Not everyone is cut out for higher education and alas there are fewer and fewer manual labor or low skill jobs in the country. In my experience this group may well feel trapped and powerless. But that doesn't mean the are the victim of discrimination, whose fault is it that everyone moved to town and took all the jobs?
(I had to prune that a bit,LOL)
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the ... s-support/
http://www.cbsnews.com/elections/2016/p ... inia/exit/