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9 hrs agoLiked by Michael Kovnat

I’d have to check her data. I live in rural western Missouri. Trump worship was taken to a whole new level out here and mass deportation was something of a religious tenet.

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This is not rocket science, it is simply taking time to actually do on-the-ground "research" and have conversations and realize exactly who and what these American citizens are.

I grew up on a farm outside of Springfield, KY, a town of a bit more than 3,000 in the Bluegrass. I can trace my American roots back to Thomas Greens who arrived in America in 1633 on the Ark and Dove.

But, I lived 25+ years in Manhattan and another 16 years in San Francisco, listening to those liberal-minded coastal elites disparage, with zero experience of the "flyover zone", the majority of America.

It got really tiresome listening to clueless people make unfounded generalizations.

And, as a lifelong Democrat, it's no fucking wonder we are where we are.

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Thanks for sharing your insights, Elizabeth!

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