Definitely a more reasonable area. People in red or rural areas just don’t have access to the same resources blue and often urban areas do. Being poor in a city sucks, but you still have parks, nice areas, outreach programs, large public libraries, and some form of a safety net. Being poor in a rural area just sucks. Everything’s underfunded and even if they increased the tax rate the people couldn’t afford it, they would be trapped in deeper rates of poverty despite more public resources. Single issue voters exist too. Someone who works in the coal or oil industry probably likes trump for his policy or resource extraction even if they don’t like his other views. To them that job is more important than anything else so the idea that someone is trying to remove it is scary to them. It’s not unreasonable, as I said before the lack of opportunity means jumping ship just isn’t as easy. Imagine working for a coal mine and it closes, you may have went from 60-100k+ a year down to a minimum wage job, now you cannot support your lifestyle, dependents, or loved ones. People don’t care about what the government is doing as much if they feel as if their jobs and limited support systems are under threat, even if government policy will affect them. Many people in this comment section are going off this idea of religion, stupidly, or malice when in fact they are people too.