Hydera
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« on: June 28, 2017, 12:18:56 PM » |
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Since were going to have this conversation again and again.
Gore still won coal country in 2000 but after that the democrats started losing the region mainly because of environmentalism being entrenched in the party in order to win over voters who otherwise would of went to the Greens. And in 2000 the clash over social issues from the lewinsky scandal, guns added with environmentalism making coal communities feel threatened. Make the region start voting GOP strongly afterwards added by the region's disapproval over gay marriage.
Then in 2008 the trend accelerated because of disapproval over Obama being the candidate(He was black and had a reputation for being liberal which upset many long time socially conservative dems)
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