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Title: Why ‘white trash’ Americans are flocking to Donald Trump
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URL Source: http://nypost.com/2016/07/30/why-wh ... king-to-donald-trump/?AID=7236
Published: Jul 30, 2016
Author: Kyle Smith
Post Date: 2016-07-31 14:57:37 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: None
Views: 369
Comments: 9

Why ‘white trash’ Americans are flocking to Donald Trump Supporters for Presidential nominee Donald Trump carry a banner at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo: Reuters

Why ‘white trash’ Americans are flocking to Donald Trump

By Kyle Smith

July 30, 2016 | 5:26am

When J.D. Vance was a boy, his beloved grandmother “Mamaw” told her boozer husband that if he ever came home drunk again, she’d kill him. When he did, and passed out on the couch, she got a gasoline can, poured fuel all over him and dropped a lit match on his chest. He survived with mild burns, and later quit drinking.

One time when J.D.’s mom took exception to something the boy said in the car, she hit the accelerator and sped up to 100 miles per hour, screaming that she was going to kill them both. When he jumped in the backseat hoping to protect himself from the impact, he recalls, she instead pulled the car over “to beat the s- -t out of me.” The evening concluded with Mom being hauled away in a police car.

One of J.D.’s stepdads, Bob, though kindhearted, had a bad case of “Mountain Dew mouth.” Half his teeth had fallen out, the other half were black, brown and misshapen.

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J.D. and his people are called rednecks, white trash, hillbillies. But Vance made it out of the holler, way out. The Marines led him to Ohio State, then Yale Law School and finally a job as a principal at a Silicon Valley investment firm. Looking back on his youth, and all he fled, yields a frank, unsentimental, harrowing memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” It’s a superb book given an extra layer of importance by its political reverberations: When Vance returns home these days, he sees yard after yard festooned with Trump signs.

Nancy Pelosi says blue-collar white men vote “against their own economic interests” because of guns, gays and God, “God being the woman’s right to choose.” The Washington Post noted that this group does care about gun rights more than the average voter but it’s a myth that their views on gays and God differ much from everyone else, and Pelosi’s regal dismissal of the bitter clingers is not only too reductive, it’s an attitude that drives voters away from the Democratic Party.

Though “Hillbilly Elegy” is about people, not politics, it is an eye-opening field guide to an unruly and hard-to-understand group, many of them born and bred Democrats, who could cost Hillary Clinton what looked like an easy election win. White voters without a college degree have favored Republicans for some time — they voted for Mitt Romney by 18 points in 2012 — but they love Donald Trump. In an average of six polls this month, he is beating Clinton by a margin of 58 to 30 among these voters. The massive swing of white working-class voters, who made up 44 percent of the electorate in 2012, could more than cancel out her strengths among minorities and the college-educated.

Vance paints a picture of a world exactly like the one Trump described in his acceptance speech 10 days ago. He grew up in Jackson, Ky., and nearby Middletown, Ohio, a once-prosperous industrial town where everyone seemed to work for the steel company Armco. Back in the 1960s, the company would actively recruit new workers from the hills of eastern Kentucky, taking care to preserve families by encouraging relatives to move in also. “For my grandparents,” Vance writes, “Armco was an economic savior — the engine that brought them from the hills of Kentucky to America’s middle class.” Vance’s Papaw would proudly stop by car dealerships to explain to J.D. that this or that car was built with Armco steel. He retired with a generous pension.

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I didn't know that drinking moonshine would rot your teeth.

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

I didn't know that drinking moonshine would rot your teeth.

My grandpa who emigrated to the u.s. from Italy built a cellar and would make wine down there. :-)

He died many decades ago but the house, cellar and Italian restaurant he built still stand. It's now a Mexican seafood restaurant. I stop by there every ten years or so to reminisce. :-)

"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28

Artisan  posted on  2016-07-31   15:10:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Artisan (#1)

the house, cellar and Italian restaurant he built still stand. It's now a Mexican seafood restaurant. I stop by there every ten years or so to reminisce.

I hear ya on this, and I am glad he left his legacy with the house and restaurant he built, and the cellar. I wonder if they serve Red Snapper in that Mexican seafood restaurant. LOL

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2016-07-31   15:29:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: BTP Holdings (#2)

The few times I've gone in there, the staff had odd, blank, and frankly creepily clueless stares in response. I don't think they even understood English.

I mean, if I worked in some restaurant and a customer told me his grandpa built the damn place, I would find it extremely interesting, lol. It's a different culture. The new immigrants do not assimilate like my grandpa did. He always said "no more Italian. We are in America now, we will speak english!"

"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28

Artisan  posted on  2016-07-31   15:53:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Artisan (#3) (Edited)

The new immigrants do not assimilate like my grandpa did. He always said "no more Italian. We are in America now, we will speak english!"

When we would run down to Miami in the big truck, we would go into the Cuban restaurant for lunch. The two waitresses were daughters of the owner. I would say something to the one little waitress and she would stomp her foot because she couldn't put together the proper response in English. The Cuban communities in the Miami area were called "Little Havana".

They had this espresso drink that was laden with sugar. It was called "colada" and we would get a large cup of it and bring it back to the warehouse. They would split it between two or three guys to give them some energy. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2016-07-31   16:07:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Because "white trash Americans" do not know what the hell is going on, believe what they hear on TV.

Darkwing  posted on  2016-08-01   14:04:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Darkwing (#5)

Because "white trash Americans" do not know what the hell is going on, believe what they hear on TV.

You're full of it. My entire ancestry is Appalachian and all of them knew exactly what was going on. Anyone who doesn't vote for Trump is stupid. It's either Trump or the Hildebeast, and the Hildebeast is a corrupt drunken lesbian monster.

"Have Brain, Will Travel

Turtle  posted on  2016-08-01   15:04:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Turtle (#6)

My entire ancestry is Appalachian and....

HAH!

Well, that certainly explains a lot.

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Turdle's sister: Hey, Pa, I wanna borry the pickup tonite."

"Well okey dokey then, you know what you gotta do!"

"Oh, Pa, do I have to? *Pants unzipping* Ooh, Pa, this thing tastes like sheeut!"

"Oh, I forgot, your brother Turdle already borried the pickup tonite!"

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2016-08-01   15:51:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: HOUNDDAWG (#7)

You're going to have a pug attached to your tiny little skull real soon!

"Have Brain, Will Travel

Turtle  posted on  2016-08-01   15:56:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Turtle (#8)

You're going to have a pug attached to your tiny little skull real soon!

LMAO!

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2016-08-01   16:00:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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