RE: TODAY I LEARNED - What a Detailed Map of the Election Results May Mean
I am honestly surprised if that is new to you. Because people from the country have always (and in every country haha, bad word joke here) voted more conservative. Meaning both anti-change and anti-"strangers", which you could interpret as changing people anyway.
The reason for this is not property though (and Trump voters would have rioted if Clinton had won, and did so even before).
The reason is simply that people in the cities are USED to change. They often meet people that differ a lot (compared to country folk). They hear "strange" ideas a lot. They get accustomed to more things etc.
You can see that easily at "ethnic" food. For example where I live (former GDR) indian food was unknown since not so long ago. 2 years back the nearest indian restaurant was 30 miles away. So 90% of people have never eaten real indian food.
Then an indian restaurant opened. And it happened what always happened.
There were those who jumped on the opportunity and eat there the first week.
And there were those who said: Nah, I dont need that. I dont want that. My great-great-great-grandfather has never indian food, so I dont need it, too!
Of course there are a lot of shadows between those extremes, but that is what happens.
Now, the "try new" people are those who move to cities. Because they want the new things there or because they are less inclined to stay behind frightened. At the same time the "grandfather" types detest the change of the city (and in case of people, often get racist or anti-LGBT).
So you have a bias that progressive people flock to cities, where they find more opportunity to be progressive and more shades to move that progressiveness on.
On the country the opposite works in the same way. Someone who likes new stuff wont find it and nobody with whom he can talk about it. It may well be he is seen as a wired egghead by the other 142 people in the village.
Cultural change ALWAYS started in cities, and Trump is as un-change as you can get if you arent a mormon.
There are many, based on the comments below, who don't even believe it, so apparently I'm not the only once who hadn't considered this evaluation before.
Glad I found it ^^ If you read this carefully with my points in mind you will see that he is basically saying the same about teh difference.
http://boingboing.net/2016/11/23/vi-harts-statistical-perspec.html
Thanks! I appreciate that!
I'm with @lennstar on this one. Here's an example from my high school years. Our journalism class was coming back from a out-of-town multi-school conference. We stopped for dinner at a Swedish smorgasbord in Lindsburg, Kansas - a little town known for its Swedish heritage. We ended up leaving because some of the teachers and other kids were uncomfortable with the food -- the Swedish meatballs were just too weird. We went to get hamburgers. That story describes my town's overall worldview, too. I left the day after high school graduation.