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[SanAndreasX]

sc94597 said:

SanAndreasX said:

We'll see. I spent a lot of my formative years in the Bible Belt, thankfully my parents carried their West Coast values with them and didn't raise me in the church. You underestimate how deep the religious grooming runs in that part of the country. 

I don't underestimate it, but you can't win or maintain national power by having the bible belt alone, even if religious grooming is heavy there. 

There aren't enough EC votes in the South. 

That is why Trump had to appeal to the Rust Belt, modern Florida, Appalachia, etc. The populations of these states vote on what they think their material interests are first and foremost. This is also the basis of the right-populist perspectives surrounding race and immigration. 

I grew up in semi-rural appalachia. The transition from voting for Democrats -> Trump has been purely about material interests here, not religion. 

I've already seen that narrative change. "The price of eggs" was 2024's "but her emails." The price of eggs (and other foodstuffs) are still going to the moon, but they're openly saying now that they don't care about that anymore, that the real importance is that Trump is implementing their ideology in government and in foreign relations. He's getting rid of all those "illegals," never mind that crops are starting to rot on the vine in Texas and Oklahoma. They're cheering over Google caving in on "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley." Ryan Walters has been absolutely gleeful that he has free reign to implement his religious agenda in Oklahoma. Meanwhile his Republican counterpart in Arizona, who is something of an ideologue in his own right, is appalled at the idea of ICE raiding Arizona schools. 

Trump himself said that grocery prices are not a concern of his last week. Their enthusiasm for him still has yet to be dampened. I'm hoping the clusterfuck with Medicaid will be a tipping point, but I'm not optimistic. 

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