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Originally Posted by nik-
Why?
An attempt to understand isn't support.
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I'm not saying you're supporting.
It's just sad watching you adopt a false dichotomy, resisting the resistance because it's resisting.
#### like this is just factually incorrect:
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Originally Posted by Niki Niki Nine Door
Well that depends if you legitimately think they're cutting off their nose. I don't really think some midwest Rust Belters would have been impacted differently in either direction regardless of who won this election. So why the hell do they care? They see one party who keeps claiming everything is better, but they don't see it in their lives so what's the reaction. They don't want the same so they vote for the different.
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White Rust Belters were some of the biggest beneficiaries in the country of the ACA.
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Originally Posted in Corsi's Bible
Blue-collar whites remain the locus of opposition to the law. In the Election Day exit poll, the share of whites without a college degree that said the ACA “goes too far” was nearly double the combined portion that said it didn’t go far enough or was about right. By comparison, non-whites split by more than 2 to 1 in favor of those more positive responses, and college-educated whites divided about evenly. The blue-collar whites who said the law went too far preferred Trump over Hillary Clinton by nearly 13 to 1, according to results from the CNN polling unit.
And yet, for all this skepticism, in practice millions of blue-collar whites have gained coverage under the law, particularly in states critical to the Republican electoral map. Using census data, the Urban Institute recently calculated that from 2010 through 2015, more non-college-educated whites gained coverage than college-educated whites and minorities combined in all five of the key Rustbelt states that flipped from Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016: Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Whites without a college degree also represented a majority of those gaining coverage under the law in core Trump states like Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
These states often saw enormous reductions in the number of uninsured working-class whites: about 40 percent in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; roughly 50 percent in Ohio, Iowa, and Michigan; and 60 percent in West Virginia and Kentucky.
Because minorities represented most of those gaining coverage in many of the biggest states, like California and Texas, they still represented a majority of those obtaining health insurance nationwide, the Urban Institute found. But in all, 6.2 million non-college-educated whites have gained insurance under the law, compared with about 9 million minorities. Obamacare slashed the share of uninsured non-college-educated whites from 20 percent in 2010 to 12 percent in 2015.
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I think it's idiotic and I think it's sad watching you fall into it.