03-02-2021, 01:12 PM
(03-02-2021, 12:20 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I think a large percentage of his supporters want to return to being able to be publicly proud of the US as a nation and its culture without being ridiculed and labeled a racist, yokel, redneck, hillbilly etc.
Unfortunately the cultural trend on the left isn't going to allow for this so we will see the schism only widen in the near future. The end game to all of this is the only thing that's currently up in the air.
Honestly, this is one of the things we try hard to fight against in Appalachia specifically, but the South more broadly. We've even had conversations on this in this forum when discussing the trash that is Hillbilly Elegy and its author. Though, to be fair, I have no objections to the term redneck or hillbilly when describing me, but the idea that these are denigrative terms is one causes a lot of problems for the Democrats. Lefty types in Appalachia tend to be very critical of the party for this reason. The way the region has been treated has caused the people to become disillusioned with the major parties in a lot of ways and is why Trump gained such a foothold, but it has also caused the more left-leaning to go further left than the Democrats. A lot of it has to do with the cultural trend going on.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
