{"id":4438,"date":"2021-02-13T16:08:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2021-02-13T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:08:58","slug":"how-trump-won-one-of-americas-most-diverse-counties-by-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4438","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Won One of America\u2019s Most Diverse Counties \u2014 By a Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Trump and his campaign targeted voters regardless of their racial differences with his rural-resonant messages of social conservatism\u2014pro-gun, pro-life, pro-military\u2014and anti-NAFTA broadsides that are catnip for an electorate that blames free trade agreements and globalization for shuttered factories and a sinking standard of living. The campaign also added to the equation a hyperspecific and transactional component: very publicly backing the federal recognition the Lumbee have been seeking since the 1800s. Finally, Trump and his most prominent surrogates kept showing up, a persistence that crested with Trump\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?477324-1\/president-trump-campaigns-lumberton-north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\">rally<\/a>\u00a0in the county seat a week and a half before the election\u2014something no sitting president had ever done here.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/12\/10\/robeson-county-rural-rainbow-coalition-north-carolina-trump-republicans-443978\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/12\/10\/robeson-county-rural-rainbow-coalition-north-carolina-trump-republicans-443978<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trump and his campaign targeted voters regardless of their racial differences with his rural-resonant messages of social conservatism\u2014pro-gun, pro-life, pro-military\u2014and anti-NAFTA broadsides that are catnip for an electorate that blames free trade agreements and globalization for shuttered factories and a sinking standard of living. The campaign also added to the equation a hyperspecific and transactional component: very publicly backing the federal recognition the Lumbee have been seeking since the 1800s. Finally, Trump and his most prominent surrogates kept showing up, a persistence that crested with Trump\u2019s rally in the county seat a week and a half before the election\u2014something no sitting president had ever done here.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[585,221,372,386],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-campaign","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-voters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}