Trump won the white working-man vote..

[Kosh]

...by 39 points!!!

http://www.electoral-vote.com/#item-1

Incredible!  But, as the article states, Trump's victory may turn out to be the best thing for the progressive cause, assuming, of course, that the SCOTUS judges can live on (and on and on!)

As I alluded to in a different thread.  Many/Most of this group are the same people that for years have been railing against the poor for using any sort of welfare security net to help them get by and improve their situation.  You know the group, "pull yourself up by your bootstraps".  Now they bitch and moan that the economy, society, the world has passed them by.  Unemployment is low, yet they lack the skills nor the will to achieve the skills needed to get a better paying job.  They want their coal mining, street sweeping, snow plowing, assembly line, and foundry jobs back.

Unions are the devil..  Because "they" don't belong to one.  They are angry at what others have and they don't.  Math and science are useless because they demonstrate "inconvenient" truths such as evolution and climate change.

Just my opinions of course, but my parents voted Trump and the above is exactly as I see them.  My mother was a teen mom who refused to take any government help to improve her situation.  She got pregnant at 16, was married and then divorced by 20.  She moved back to small town America where she grew up, and was always concerned with what the townies were saying about her.  She worked as a clerk for little to nothing at my grandfathers drug store, and she remarried an aspiring farmer five years her junior when she was 27.

From my perspective, she kept us in poverty because of pride and ignorance.   She could have moved to a different town for some anonymity, went on welfare, and went back to school.  She could have come out the other side with a higher paying job, and paid higher taxes for 40 years.  My step father isn't any better.