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Junior Chimp
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« on: June 13, 2015, 04:53:54 PM » |
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Take a look at the 1984 county map of Southwest PA. Mondale won almost all those counties that have been trending heavily Republican post 2000.
Mondale was the pro labor traditional New Deal type of Democrat working class whites could identify with. Mondale was seen as a Liberal but not of the 'acid, amnesty, abortion' type like McGovern was. At least in western PA, working class whites seem to have stuck with the Democrats that year. The 1980's were also a time of drastic changes and the rapid deindustrialization of America. Factories were closing and laying off workers left and right and this was the beginning of the end of the Rust Belt.
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