What in the Wide, Wide World Of Sports happened in rural America?
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Bandit3 the Worker
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« on: November 07, 2012, 03:23:42 AM »

Yeah, I know Obama won the election overall, but what's with the collapse in rural counties? The urban/rural split is wider than ever now.

Obama actually got only 3% in King County, TX!
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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2012, 03:44:46 AM »

Racism.
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Tender Branson
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« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2012, 05:04:12 AM »

They blame him for the drought in the summer I guess.

And it's full of older white people, mostly men.
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« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2012, 05:17:00 AM »

I know it's a tired cliche by now, but the nation is more polarized than ever, not just by urban/rural but along racial lines (according to the exit polls). Have to wait for the final results, but I wanna see what the trend relative to the rest of the nation is.
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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2012, 10:49:55 PM »

Ethanol wasn't an issue this year. Obama's support in the rural Midwest was "artificially" high because of corn in 2008.
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« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2012, 04:00:39 PM »

Yeah, Obama was artificially inflated in the corn country and most of the other rural areas that he cratered in had specific reasons (fossils fuels, Mormons, whatever). It should be noted there are also rural areas where he actually held steady or even improved on 2008, like northwestern New England and upstate New York, south-central Ohio, the Black Belt, and large parts of the Southwest. Not what we necessarily think of when we think of the traditional rural America (well, I do, but I live in one of aforementioned places), but they're still rural.
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