Continuing coverage.

'They're getting the shit kicked out of them. I know, I was there. Step outside of the city, and the suicide rate among young people fucking doubles. The recession pounded rural communities, but all the recovery went to the cities. The rate of new businesses opening in rural areas has utterly collapsed.'
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-helpful-answers-to-societys-most-uncomfortable-questions/

'This year, more Kansans caucused for Bernie Sanders than for Donald Trump – a newsworthy point I never saw noted in national press, who perhaps couldn’t fathom that “flyover country” might contain millions of Americans more progressive than their Clinton strongholds.
In lieu of such coverage, media makers cast the white working class as a monolith and imply an old, treacherous story convenient to capitalism: that the poor are dangerous idiots.'
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/liberal-media-bias-working-class-americans

http://www.wnyc.org/series/busted-americas-poverty-myths