I don't want rural people to lose their way of life but I am hard-pressed to believe that Republicans will help them keep it. We'll see.

Wow..seems like a really honest warts and all portrayal of the real mindset of the people who elected Trump.
Love it or dismiss it..but it delves deep into their desperate and angry brick through the window of the politics of a truly devided nation...one side feels forgotten and neglected...the other side..confounded and betrayed.

Loved the article!
I lived 27 years in Rowan County, in the eastern Kentucky hills, on my grandfather's farm. The locals shot enough deer during hunting season, (or not!) to store enough venison in a rented food locker to last the year!

They fished, grew their own food, raised tobacco to sell, rode calm, gaited horses they bred themselves, fixed their own cars, built their own houses, never called the police since everyone, from the seven year old to the 80-year-old grandmother had a gun within quick access distance, and knew how to use it.

Many kept expensive coon hounds and regularly went on hunts.

They attend tiny rural churches with songs from the 18th century, where everyone, young and old, is required to play and sing "solos" at church, so even young children are used to performing in public.

Trump can certainly pick his audience.

Perhaps Hillary kept changing her support?[agnostic.com]

Good read,makes you think. the haves,and the have nots,and Hillary asks "What happened"?

It raises some very interesting points.