That there is something (trying to be nice here) "fishy" about this election. There are the raw numbers you mentioned already, but also the fact that (contrary to popular belief) California is not some freak outlier full of nothing by raving liberals/feminists/(insert whatever demonized group you want here). How in the world does Hillary romp and stomp in California in every single economic demographic, and win by 3 million plus votes and lose among every economic demographic but working people all across the Midwest? Working people in California are hurting too. AND it's not like they are social liberals either. California passed a gay marriage ban by referendum. They capped taxes. The adopted the most onerous three strike bill in the country. Damn, in this last election, they just voted to speed up executions. There is a serious "Southern" streak in California too. There's nothing I can see to explain the difference.
I understand that things are horrible in the Rust Belt, but they've been that way for decades. People in Ohio didn't just wake up and say "Gosh, my life just started sucking these past 8 years and I'm not going to vote for another Democrat." Those people voted for Hillary
The Midwesterners who voted for Trump AREN'T HURTING AT ALL. They are NO different than their California counterparts.
It just didn't f'n happen. Something's wrong
That being said, you are whistling past the graveyard when it comes to suburbia. We have won the suburban vote exactly twice in presidential elections post-Bill, both time by a candidate whose equal will never be seen again. We have lost it in every other election. We have lost the House almost entirely because districts are gerrymandered to include enough suburbanites to outweigh every other group. They have not been in the fold since they left to vote for Reagan and the fact that Bill won them by pushing such tripe as welfare reform, the death penalty, mandatory minimums, etc. doesn't change anything. The moved to the suburbs to get away from us, they buy guns like candy because they are scared of us, they open schools where the only black face they see are the children of families who "love education as much as they do" (translation, will drive their kids across town).
THEY are the "deplorables."
THEY are the ones who put Trump in office.
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