Luzerne County went from 55% Obama to 58% Trump. Lackawanna County, home of working class Scranton, went from 63% Obama to 50% Clinton. Both are working class counties with extremely high populations of working class whites. Did the second coming of the Reagan Democrat happen?
Reagan Democrats weren't ing working class voters, they were middle to upper middle class voters mostly from ethnic backgrounds. Look at 84' presidential map in Pennsylvania. This myth needs to fycking destroyed.
Reagan got 48% in Lackawanna county.
PA in 1980 exhibited the historic East-West divide with the West being Democratic. Republicans won the suburbs of Philly like they did at that time, but extended that up to historically Democratic voters in the Lehigh Valley and NE portion of the state including Luzerne and a very strong performance in Lackawanna county.
