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Though Appalachia isn't a high-population region, its 25 million residents across 13 states can determine an election.
Imagine if the Dems figured out how to campaign in western North Carolina, central Pennsylvania, or northern Georgia. http://expatalachians.com/hillbilly-politics-how-appalachia-picks-president @expatalachians
Imagine if the Dems figured out how to campaign in western North Carolina, central Pennsylvania, or northern Georgia. http://expatalachians.com/hillbilly-politics-how-appalachia-picks-president @expatalachians
It's not that the Republicans have made a bulletproof case to rural voters—the Democrats have simply given up and rejected building a political platform that respects the difference between rural and urban residents. http://expatalachians.com/appalachia-went-republican-because-democrats-left-it-behind
Some rural Dems are trying to build support on the local level, but they're not exactly getting a ton of help or funding from national Dems http://expatalachians.com/where-are-appalachias-progressives
Those efforts can pay off, but they take time, as @oliviacpaschal has reported on in Georgia https://www.facingsouth.org/2020/11/georgia-keeps-democratic-senate-hopes-alive
And when one party stops trying to win votes, people don't bother showing up to the polls—which makes local governance worse. Competition means accountability.
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2020/11/the-missing-voters-the-ohio-valley-has-some-of-the-nations-lowest-voter-turnout-what-could-change-that/ via @Appalachia100
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2020/11/the-missing-voters-the-ohio-valley-has-some-of-the-nations-lowest-voter-turnout-what-could-change-that/ via @Appalachia100
I'm not trying to write a playbook for the Dems here—I'm not a Democrat. But whenever a party gives up on a place, be it Republicans in cities or Democrats in the country, our lives get worse.
It's looking like Biden will win the presidency, but the Dems utterly failed on the state and local level https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-democratic-flop-in-the-states-11604619219
