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still_one

(92,192 posts) Sat Apr 1, 2017, 07:03 PM Apr 2017

"'Coal country' residents weren't voting to preserve what they have, or had until recently; they were voting on behalf of a story their region tells about itself, a story that hasn't been true for a generation or more"

"Their trump votes weren't even about the region's interests; they were about cultural symbolism"

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/paul-krugman-reveals-why-so-many-trump-voters-appear-vote-against-their-own-self

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Paul Krugman's take on why people vote against their own self-interest (Original Post) still_one Apr 2017 OP

That's correct . it's culture JI7 Apr 2017 #1

(89,250 posts)

1. That's correct . it's culture

Sat Apr 1, 2017, 07:09 PM

Apr 2017

(54,770 posts)

2. Too many people look at money in THEIR pocket as "self-interest," even to the point of treating