Trump's Weird America vs. Kamala's Bland America

More examples of how flyover suburbia, long excoriated by Democratic culturati, trended toward Kamala, while Trump increasingly dominated the forgotten fringes of America, such as the Lumbees.

For awhile, I’ve been promoting the Twitter posts of Cornell law student Siddharth Khurana recounting electoral trends from 2012 through 2024 in various particularly interesting locales. He has a knack for finding illustrative examples.

Today, he came up with a couple of bangers that illustrate my observation that the Democrats have done well with what you might call the modern mainstream of America: people who live in suburbs, have been to college, perhaps who fly frequently on business, who ate white bread as children when visiting their grandparents (but who would never buy white bread today, unless it came into ironic fashion), and so forth: the kind of folks whom Democrat-leaning writers, filmmakers, musicians, and other style-setters have been denouncing as bland and boring for 60 years.

In contrast, Trump increasingly triumphed among the more forgotten fringes of America: Trump’s Weird America, Old and New. (The “old, weird America” is a famous characterization by rock critic Greil Marcus of the subject matter of Bob Dylan’s songs.)

As I’ve pointed out before, Trump did relatively well among such exemplars of the New, Weird America as Persian Jews in Beverly Hills and the Old, Weird America, such as French-Canadian lumberjacks in Maine.

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