How Trump Won the Midwest: by Sean Trende & David Byler, RealClearPolitics

[rbt48]

This has been quite an interesting series in case you've missed reading it:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/19/how_trump_won_the_midwest_132834.html

I think the series has been five sections.  I missed the South and read the Northeast.  Enjoy!

[Matty]

Hillary's collapse in rural area is something else.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Not enough urban liberals in the Midwest to bulldoze over rural voters' preferences here (except Illinois)

[ApatheticAustrian]

great series.

i am a general fan of sean trende.

he may be center-right and not center-center but he is imho one of the smartest and most spot-on watchers of american politics.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Not enough urban liberals in the Midwest to bulldoze over rural voters' preferences here (except Illinois)

idd.

while the west could become a nightmare for republicans and some states of the south are trending.

[Frodo]

Not enough urban liberals in the Midwest to bulldoze over rural voters' preferences here (except Illinois)

The way Chicago is hemorrhaging its population, Illinois could go the way of its sister states too. 

[hopper]

Not enough urban liberals in the Midwest to bulldoze over rural voters' preferences here (except Illinois)

The way Chicago is hemorrhaging its population, Illinois could go the way of its sister states too. 

I don't think so since Illinois is 16% Hispanic and around 14-15% Black.

[Frodo]

Not enough urban liberals in the Midwest to bulldoze over rural voters' preferences here (except Illinois)

The way Chicago is hemorrhaging its population, Illinois could go the way of its sister states too. 

I don't think so since Illinois is 16% Hispanic and around 14-15% Black.

That may be the case now, but what happens when all those Hispanics are fully integrated, and no longer regard themselves as a separate race, like you conservatives and Republicans keep saying they will? 

[hopper]

Not enough urban liberals in the Midwest to bulldoze over rural voters' preferences here (except Illinois)

The way Chicago is hemorrhaging its population, Illinois could go the way of its sister states too. 

I don't think so since Illinois is 16% Hispanic and around 14-15% Black.

That may be the case now, but what happens when all those Hispanics are fully integrated, and no longer regard themselves as a separate race, like you conservatives and Republicans keep saying they will? 

For now and for the near future Illinois is a Dem State. Hispanics are an ethnicity and not a race by the way.

[Frodo]

Not enough urban liberals in the Midwest to bulldoze over rural voters' preferences here (except Illinois)

The way Chicago is hemorrhaging its population, Illinois could go the way of its sister states too.  

I don't think so since Illinois is 16% Hispanic and around 14-15% Black.

That may be the case now, but what happens when all those Hispanics are fully integrated, and no longer regard themselves as a separate race, like you conservatives and Republicans keep saying they will?  

For now and for the near future Illinois is a Dem State. Hispanics are an ethnicity and not a race by the way.

The transition will likely take decades (like it did for Michigan), but until things turn around, I think Illinois will follow suit.  Eventually Chicago may no longer be enough to keep Illinois Atlas-red.  

[ApatheticAustrian]

if we look at everything on a decade-long timeline, many republican states are going to become democratic and the other way around.