Interesting how the map shows the most prevalent losses in the areas with known early infestation of drug cartels and those from south of the border - illegals.

March 23, 2017 By Colleen Conley
How The Government Is Literally Killing White Middle Class Americans


When Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States, liberals -including those denizens of coastal America, the media, academia, and the political class – were aghast at the outcome of the election.

Although the media told them it could not happen, Trump’s victory was not as shocking to citizens of fly-over country, the Rust Belt, and other working class communities who handed him the presidency.
“Bumpkins! Uneducated racists! Misogynists!”, the self-ordained leftist geniuses labeled Trump supporters.
How can Americans view the same country though such different paradigms? Each group looks at the other as alien, with inexplicably delusional viewpoints. It seems that for decades, segments of society that existed inside a bubble – continuing to prosper and live among the prosperous – ignored or remained ignorant of the desperate plight of their fellow citizens.
Much of the answer lies in governmental policies put in place going back to the 1990’s. The economic consequences of NAFTA, increasing regulations, out-sourcing, etc. left certain segments of society – whites without bachelor degrees – with few options for increasing prosperity. For the first time in our history, a huge segment of American society was not going to exceed the lifestyle that their parents were able to produce.
From Kit Carson, CO to Stuttgart, AK to Youngstown, OH, the desolation of once vibrant communities is self-evident to anyone that passes through. And the result has been deadly, according to new research.
According to Bloomberg:
Mortality and morbidity, which measure chances of death or illness within an age group, began climbing in the late 1990s for less-educated whites between 45 and 54. That came as progress against heart disease and cancer slowed and drug overdoses, suicide and alcoholism — so-called “deaths of despair” — became pervasive.
Distress born of globalization and technological change probably drove the deadly outcome, new research by Princeton University’s Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton shows. Their findings point to a cycle of despair that’s deepening: Middle-aged whites today are more likely to report pain and mental-health problems than their predecessors and are experiencing symptoms of alcoholism at a younger age.

According to the authors:
“Much of the relationship between mortality and Trump’s performance is explained by economic factors; counties with higher economic distress and larger working-class presence also have higher mortality rates and came out strongly for Trump,” Monnat wrote. “In many of the counties where Trump did the best, economic precarity has been building and social and family networks have been breaking down for several decades.”
The desolation and despair that has existed for decades in a vast swath of America has become a death spiral for many. Perhaps that is why Trump – who spoke to those very people in a way that no other candidate has been able – resonated so much.
The white middle class is literally dying for a change in government that will finally benefit them, instead of every other interest group that has fed the swamp monsters in DC.
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