We really are two Americas. But it wasn’t always so. Dave Wasserman of TheCook Political Report points out that Donald Trump won 76% of counties with a Cracker Barrel but only 22% of counties with a Whole Foods, a 54-point gap. Yet in 1992, when Bill Clinton won the presidency, the gap between those same counties was only 19 points.
There is a sense among many “Cracker Barrel” Americans that they are not only expected to accept rapid cultural changes, but they are obliged to never even express a reservation or ask for more time to adjust. The choice is full-throated embrace or nothing.
They wanted someone to stand athwart history and yell stop. Donald Trump was that man. So they made him president.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...p-cultural-worldview-kirsten-powers/93593088/
There is a sense among many “Cracker Barrel” Americans that they are not only expected to accept rapid cultural changes, but they are obliged to never even express a reservation or ask for more time to adjust. The choice is full-throated embrace or nothing.
They wanted someone to stand athwart history and yell stop. Donald Trump was that man. So they made him president.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...p-cultural-worldview-kirsten-powers/93593088/