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In reply to the discussion: The median income of a coal miner is about $80K [View all]meadowlander
(4,394 posts)to themselves of doing so.
I don't need 100% to agree with every other person who votes for a democrat. In the current political climate, voting for a democrat is enough.
Many coal miners supported democrats when we were staunchly pro-union and when we went out and showed people in these communities that we were fighting hard to improve their working conditions, to get them fair pay, and to get them medical benefits when they fell sick.
Republicans were able to exploit them to suggest that it was the environmental movement taking away their jobs, instead of competition from overseas.
I don't buy into the idea that the entire rust belt is so misogynistic and racist that they would vote for a Wall Street tycoon over any woman or black person that was showing them concrete economic benefits for their region.