Liberal economic populism's diminishing appeal to rural voters

[Filuwaúrdjan]

These questions always miss out a very important fact; voting patterns are not (and never were) determined by rhetoric alone. Much of that traditional Democratic strength in certain rural (using the term fairly loosely) areas was kept in place by the fact that Democratic administrations actually delivered for these areas, or at least didn't pursue policies that actively harmed them. Bit by bit and year by year the Clinton administration steadily undermined this.