Massive trends to the Republicans in Eastern Kentucky displayed

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

[Ban my account ffs!]

The coal industry has gone to sh**t while the internet has improved.  So who needs a job at the mine when you can watch right wing conspiracies all day on the Yourtubs!

Not to minimize the extent to which these people considered Trump an actual savior.

[HillGoose]

My friend who lives in South-Central KY and hates KY with a passion says that if your car breaks down in East KY at night you'll get cannibalized by inbreds and I mean maybe he's exaggerating but if he's not I'm not sure that's a demographic any party should want to claim as one of their own lmao

[jimrtex]

My friend who lives in South-Central KY and hates KY with a passion says that if your car breaks down in East KY at night you'll get cannibalized by inbreds and I mean maybe he's exaggerating but if he's not I'm not sure that's a demographic any party should want to claim as one of their own lmao

The car or the person?

[Antonio the Sixth]

It would be more helpful to see % margins, but still, definitely a striking trend.

[cvparty]

we been knew

[RFayette]

It would be more helpful to see % margins, but still, definitely a striking trend.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

It would be more helpful to see % margins, but still, definitely a striking trend.

Here they are (these are all 2-party vote):

Gore   00: 51.99%
Kerry  04: 50.15%
Obama  08: 42.66%
Obama  12: 32.22%
Clinton16: 23.95%

[RFayette]

One thing that might be interesting to look at is how much of this is due to generational replacement.  Obviously there were plenty of people who switched from voting D to voting R, but I wonder how much the death of the Greatest Generation voters in particular played a role here.  I don't have the link on hand, but I recall seeing that in Kentucky/Tennessee in particular, older voters were very, very Democratic into the '90s.  If we define the Greatest Generation as ending in 1927, we would expect to see a lot die off as they get into their 80's and beyond, which would be from 2004-2008 for the youngest in that cohort. 

[HillGoose]

My friend who lives in South-Central KY and hates KY with a passion says that if your car breaks down in East KY at night you'll get cannibalized by inbreds and I mean maybe he's exaggerating but if he's not I'm not sure that's a demographic any party should want to claim as one of their own lmao

The car or the person?

the person.

the guy telling me this is the same guy who thinks utopia is literally having the entire world covered in skyscrapers, parking lots, and mega malls though so I think he may be a little biased against rural areas in general.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

One thing that might be interesting to look at is how much of this is due to generational replacement.  Obviously there were plenty of people who switched from voting D to voting R, but I wonder how much the death of the Greatest Generation voters in particular played a role here.  I don't have the link on hand, but I recall seeing that in Kentucky/Tennessee in particular, older voters were very, very Democratic into the '90s.  If we define the Greatest Generation as ending in 1927, we would expect to see a lot die off as they get into their 80's and beyond, which would be from 2004-2008 for the youngest in that cohort. 

According to 2016 exit polls, Kentucky still has a reverse age gap:

18-44: Trump +32
45+: Trump +28

It's kind of U-shaped though (18-24: Trump +30, 40-49: Trump +48, 65+: Trump +24)

[pbrower2a]

One thing that might be interesting to look at is how much of this is due to generational replacement.  Obviously there were plenty of people who switched from voting D to voting R, but I wonder how much the death of the Greatest Generation voters in particular played a role here.  I don't have the link on hand, but I recall seeing that in Kentucky/Tennessee in particular, older voters were very, very Democratic into the '90s.  If we define the Greatest Generation as ending in 1927, we would expect to see a lot die off as they get into their 80's and beyond, which would be from 2004-2008 for the youngest in that cohort. 

According to 2016 exit polls, Kentucky still has a reverse age gap:

18-44: Trump +32
45+: Trump +28

It's kind of U-shaped though (18-24: Trump +30, 40-49: Trump +48, 65+: Trump +24)

The Greatest Generation remembered the New Deal for transmuting their hardscrabble world into one much less impoverished. The Tennessee Valley Authority brought electricity that transformed the Mountain South from a world of material poverty and technological inadequacy into one much more modern. Electricity brought jobs and improved formal education. Government was their friend, and they never forgot that.

Their children had no clue.   

[Libertas Vel Mors]

One thing that might be interesting to look at is how much of this is due to generational replacement.  Obviously there were plenty of people who switched from voting D to voting R, but I wonder how much the death of the Greatest Generation voters in particular played a role here.  I don't have the link on hand, but I recall seeing that in Kentucky/Tennessee in particular, older voters were very, very Democratic into the '90s.  If we define the Greatest Generation as ending in 1927, we would expect to see a lot die off as they get into their 80's and beyond, which would be from 2004-2008 for the youngest in that cohort. 

According to 2016 exit polls, Kentucky still has a reverse age gap:

18-44: Trump +32
45+: Trump +28

It's kind of U-shaped though (18-24: Trump +30, 40-49: Trump +48, 65+: Trump +24)

The Greatest Generation remembered the New Deal for transmuting their hardscrabble world into one much less impoverished. The Tennessee Valley Authority brought electricity that transformed the Mountain South from a world of material poverty and technological inadequacy into one much more modern. Electricity brought jobs and improved formal education. Government was their friend, and they never forgot that.

Their children had no clue.   

*They liked being given other people's money, and their children weren't as into all that.

[Epaminondas]

One thing that might be interesting to look at is how much of this is due to generational replacement.  Obviously there were plenty of people who switched from voting D to voting R, but I wonder how much the death of the Greatest Generation voters in particular played a role here.  I don't have the link on hand, but I recall seeing that in Kentucky/Tennessee in particular, older voters were very, very Democratic into the '90s.  If we define the Greatest Generation as ending in 1927, we would expect to see a lot die off as they get into their 80's and beyond, which would be from 2004-2008 for the youngest in that cohort.  

According to 2016 exit polls, Kentucky still has a reverse age gap:

18-44: Trump +32
45+: Trump +28

It's kind of U-shaped though (18-24: Trump +30, 40-49: Trump +48, 65+: Trump +24)

The Greatest Generation remembered the New Deal for transmuting their hardscrabble world into one much less impoverished. The Tennessee Valley Authority brought electricity that transformed the Mountain South from a world of material poverty and technological inadequacy into one much more modern. Electricity brought jobs and improved formal education. Government was their friend, and they never forgot that.

Their children had no clue.    

*They liked being given other people's money, and their children weren't as into all that.

Isn't a wage also "someone else's money" originally?
But you must be right, their Republican children must have preferred living on the dole.