Tiny little rural villages and former industrial towns across the country that were once happily part of the New Deal Democratic coalition that held together for generations have been both neglected and taken for granted since the end of President Bill Clinton’s presidency.
They’ve also been mocked, a lot, by their party of birth.
Much of that simultaneous isolation occurred because they had no more political juice; their regions, which became stitched together in state legislative and congressional districts, have declined due to poverty, lost manufacturing bases, the deterioration of the family farm and shrinking populations.
Conversely, urban areas, thanks to gentrification, academia and technology have become more populous, packing in their urban districts an incredible amount of influence, clout, wealth and an abundance of the rising American electorate — minorities and young people.
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