There's an asymmetrical perception issue between rural areas and big cities/metros

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14. Exactly, the idea that conservative whites will "put aside differences"

and "vote for class interests" is a laugh. These are the same people who fled the Dem party in droves to vote for Reagan, who told them that "tax and spend liberals" were giving all of their money to "welfare queens."

They don't view the world in terms of class or anything else, but basically just want to go back the 50's - the 1850's - to some type of white patriarchal fantasy world.

The Dems do need to reach out to white working class, but those who are more secular and pragmatic, i.e. those who live in/around metro areas and industrial towns.