At the heart of this election lies a subtle truth. The world has been changing quickly in the last twenty years and with the advent of social media and portable electronics, the scope and nature of those changes has become unavoidable. The sudden deluge of information showing us all the differences in what makes up the American fabric has been terrifying to a large portion of our country that still, today, lives in mostly white, traditional communities across the rural US. We watched white rural American struggle with a black president. We watched parts of it squirm and coil against Obama no matter what he said or did because he represented something. He represented all those changes that had been hitting rural America again and again at faster and faster rates. While liberals wanted to make it purely about race, it was deeper than that. Yes, it was about a black president with a strange name, but Obama had also become a visible, daily symbol on TV and the news of all the chang
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