WHY THIS Democrat Stronghold County Voted For Trump…And Why They’ll Vote For Him Again: “He’s a fighter…nobody’s gonna push him into a corner” [VIDEO]AP News  The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.Steven Whitt fires up the coffee pot and flips on the fluorescent sign in the window of the Frosty Freeze, his diner that looks and sounds and smells about the same as it did when it opened a half-century ago. Coffee is 50 cents a cup, refills 25 cents. The pot sits on the counter, and payment is based on the honor system.People like it that way, he thinks. It reminds them of a time before the world seemed to stray away from them, when coal was king and the values of the nation seemed the same as the values here, in God s Country, in this small county isolated in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.Everyone in town comes to his diner for nostalgia and homestyle cooking. And, recently, news reporters come from all over the world to puzzle over politics   because Elliott County, a blue-collar union stronghold, voted for the Democrat in each and every presidential election for its 147-year existence.Until Donald Trump came along and promised to wind back the clock. He was the hope we were all waiting on, the guy riding up on the white horse. There was a new energy about everybody here,  says Whitt. I still see it. Despite the president s dismal approval ratings and lethargic legislative achievements, he remains profoundly popular here in these mountains, a region so badly battered by the collapse of the coal industry it became the symbolic heart of Trump s white working-class base.The frenetic churn of the national news, the ceaseless Twitter taunts, the daily declarations of outrage scroll soundlessly across the bottom of the diner s television screen, rarely registering. When they do, Trump doesn t shoulder the blame   because the allegiance of those here is as emotional as it is economic.It means God, guns, patriotism, saying  Merry Christmas  and not Happy Holidays. It means validation of their indignation about a changing nation: gay marriage and immigration and factories moving overseas. It means tearing down the political system that neglected them again and again in favor of the big cities that feel a world away.On those counts, they believe Trump has delivered, even if his promised blue-collar renaissance has not yet materialized. He s punching at all the people who let them down for so long   the presidential embodiment of their own discontent. He s already done enough to get my vote again, without a doubt, no question,  Wes Lewis, a retired pipefitter and one of Whitt s regulars, declares as he deals the day s first hand of cards.He thinks the mines and the factories will soon roar back to life, and if they don t, he believes they would have if Democrats and Republicans and the media   all  crooked as a barrel of fishhooks    had gotten out of the way. What Lewis has now that he didn t have before Trump is a belief that his president is pulling for people like him. One thing I hear in here a lot is that nobody s gonna push him into a corner,  says Whitt, 35.  He s a fighter. I think they like the bluntness of it. He plops down at an empty table next to the card game, drops a stack of mail onto his lap and begins flipping through the envelopes. Bill, bill, bill,  he reports to his wife, Chesla, who has arrived to relieve him at the restaurant they run together. He needs to run home and change of out his Frosty Freeze uniform, the first of several work ensembles he wears each day, and put on his second, a suit and tie. He also owns a local funeral home and he s the county coroner, elected as a Democrat.The Whitts, like many people here, cobble together a living with a couple jobs each   sometimes working 12 or 15 hours a day   because there aren t many options better than minimum wage. There s the school system, and a prison, and that s pretty much it. Outside of town, population 622, roads wind past rolling farms that used to grow tobacco before that industry crumbled too, then up into the hills of Appalachia, with its spectacular natural beauty and grinding poverty that has come to define this region in the American imagination.Whitt slides a medical bill across the table. Looks like this one is the new helmet,  he says, and his wife tears the envelope open and reports the debt: $3,995. They will add it to a growing pile that s already surpassed $40,000 since their son was born nine months ago with a rare condition. His skull was shaped like an egg, the bones fused together in places they shouldn t be. Tommy, their baby boy with big blue eyes, has now outgrown three of the helmets he s been required to wear after surgery so his bones grow back together like they should.They pay $800 a month for insurance. But when they took their baby to a surgeon in Cincinnati, they learned it was out of network. In-network hospitals offered only more invasive surgeries, so they opted to pay out of pocket. At the hospital they were told that if they d been on an insurance program for the poor, it would have all been free.This represents the cracks in America s institutions that drove Whitt, a lifelong Democrat, from supporting President Barack Obama to buying a  Make America Great Again  cap that he still keeps on top of the hutch. Many of their welfare-dependent neighbors, he believes, stay trapped in a cycle of handouts and poverty while hardworking taxpayers like him and his wife are stuck with the tab and can t get ahead. Where s the fairness in that?  he asks.But Whitt doesn t blame Trump for the failure this year to repeal the health care law and replace it with something better. He blames the  brick wall  in Washington, the politicians he sees as blocking everything Trump proposes while  small people  like them in small places like this are left again to languish.A third of people here live in poverty. Just 9 percent of adults have a college degree, but they always made up for that with backbreaking labor that workers traveled dozens of miles to neighboring counties or states to do, and those jobs have gotten harder to find.Many here blame global trade agreements and the  war on coal    environmental regulations designed by Obama s administration to curb carbon emissions   for the decline of mining and manufacturing jobs. When Trump bemoans the  American carnage  of lost factories and lost faith, it feels like he s talking to the people in these Appalachian hills. When he scraps dozens of regulations to the horror of environmentalists and says it means jobs are on the way, they embrace him.Coal has ticked up since Trump took office; mining companies have added 1,200 jobs across the country since his inauguration, more than 180 of them in Kentucky. But industry analysts say that was tied largely to market forces and dismiss Trump s repeated pledges to resuscitate the coal industry as pie in the sky. Coal has been on the decline for many decades for many reasons outside of regulation: far cheaper natural gas, mechanization, thinning Appalachian seams. With the opposition he s had, I think he s pulling the plow pretty good,  offers Wes Lewis from the card table. A few months ago, he says, he saw four brand-new coal rigs going through town.  For the longest time, under Obama, all we saw were trucks being pulled on wreckers, because people turned belly up, they went broke. Lewis says he s heard about friends of friends being called back to work. He s noticed new trucks in people s driveways, too, which he takes as evidence that his neighbors are feeling confident about their futures. These tiny signs stack up to him as proof. Lewis fishes the tag out of the bib of his overalls:  Made in Mexico,  it reads. Trump s bringing them back,  he says.Lewis, a registered Democrat, trusts Trump because he trusts his values. And because of that, he trusts Trump s other promises   so strongly he can t think of anything that would shake that faith in him. If the factories and mines don t come back, he ll blame the opposition. If there isn t a wall on the Mexico border, he says, it won t be because Trump didn t try. If investigators find his campaign colluded with Russians, it s because so many people are so determined to bring him down.Go HERE to read entire story.politics
why this democrat stronghold county voted for why they vote for him again he gon na push corner video ap news the regulars able dawn claim usual table one next old box television playing news white fires coffee pot flips fluorescent sign window frost freeze diner looks sounds smells opened ago coffee cents cup recalls cents the pot sits counter payment based honor like way thinks it reminds time world seemed stray away coal king values nation seemed values god country small county isolated foothills appalachian town comes diner nostalgia homestyle cooking and recently news reporters come world puzzle politics elliott county union stronghold voted democrat every presidential election donald trump came along promised wind back clock he hope waiting guy riding white horse there new energy everybody says white i still see despite president dismal approval ratings lethargic legislative achievements remains profoundly popular mountains region badly battered collapse coal industry became symbolic heart trump white genetic chun national news baseless twitter taunts daily declarations outrage scroll soundlessly across bottom diner television screen rarely registering when trump shoulder blame allegiance emotional means god guns patriotism saying merry christmas happy holidays it means validation indignation changing nation gay marriage immigration factories moving overseas it means tearing political system neglected favor big cities feel world counts believe trump delivered even promised renaissance yet materialized he punching people let long presidential embodiment discontent he already done enough get vote without doubt question wes lewis retired pipefitter one white regulars declares deals day first hand thinks mines factories soon roar back life believes would democrats republicans media crooked barrel fishhooks gotten way what lewis trump belief president pulling people like one thing i hear lot nobody gon na push corner says white he fighter i think like blindness he plots empty table next card game drops stack mail onto lap begins flipping envelopes bill bill bill reports wife chess arrived relieve restaurant run together he needs run home change frost freeze uniform first several work ensembles wears day put second suit tie he also owns local funeral home county coroner elected whites like many people gobble together living couple jobs sometimes working hours day many options better minimum wage there school system prison pretty much outside town population roads wind past rolling farms used grow tobacco industry stumbled hills appalachia spectacular natural beauty grinding poverty come define region american slides medical bill across table looks like one new helmet says wife tears envelope open reports debt they add growing pile already surpassed since son born nine months ago rare condition his skull shaped like egg bones fused together places tommy baby boy big blue eyes outgrowth three helmets required wear surgery bones grow back together like pay month insurance but took baby surgeon cincinnati learned network hospitals offered invasive surgeries opted pay pocket at hospital told insurance program poor would represents cracks america institutions drove white lifelong democrat supporting president barack obama buying make america great again cap still keeps top dutch many neighbors believes stay trapped cycle handouts poverty hardworking taxpayers like wife stuck tab get ahead where fairness white blame trump failure year repeal health care law replace something better he blames brick wall washington politicians sees blocking everything trump proposes small people like small places like left third people live poverty just percent adults college degree always made backbreaking labor workers traveled dozens miles neighboring counties states jobs gotten harder blame global trade agreements war coal environmental regulations designed obama administration curb carbon emissions decline mining manufacturing jobs when 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Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: WHY THIS Democrat Stronghold County Voted For Trump…And Why They’ll Vote For Him Again: “He’s a fighter…nobody’s gonna push him into a corner” [VIDEO]AP News  The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.Steven Whitt fires up the coffee pot and flips on the fluorescent sign in the window of the Frosty Freeze, his diner that looks and sounds and smells about the same as it did when it opened a half-century ago. Coffee is 50 cents a cup, refills 25 cents. The pot sits on the counter, and payment is based on the honor system.People like it that way, he thinks. It reminds them of a time before the world seemed to stray away from them, when coal was king and the values of the nation seemed the same as the values here, in God s Country, in this small county isolated in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.Everyone in town comes to his diner for nostalgia and homestyle cooking. And, recently, news reporters come from all over the world to puzzle over politics   because Elliott County, a blue-collar union stronghold, voted for the Democrat in each and every presidential election for its 147-year existence.Until Donald Trump came along and promised to wind back the clock. He was the hope we were all waiting on, the guy riding up on the white horse. There was a new energy about everybody here,  says Whitt. I still see it. Despite the president s dismal approval ratings and lethargic legislative achievements, he remains profoundly popular here in these mountains, a region so badly battered by the collapse of the coal industry it became the symbolic heart of Trump s white working-class base.The frenetic churn of the national news, the ceaseless Twitter taunts, the daily declarations of outrage scroll soundlessly across the bottom of the diner s television screen, rarely registering. When they do, Trump doesn t shoulder the blame   because the allegiance of those here is as emotional as it is economic.It means God, guns, patriotism, saying  Merry Christmas  and not Happy Holidays. It means validation of their indignation about a changing nation: gay marriage and immigration and factories moving overseas. It means tearing down the political system that neglected them again and again in favor of the big cities that feel a world away.On those counts, they believe Trump has delivered, even if his promised blue-collar renaissance has not yet materialized. He s punching at all the people who let them down for so long   the presidential embodiment of their own discontent. He s already done enough to get my vote again, without a doubt, no question,  Wes Lewis, a retired pipefitter and one of Whitt s regulars, declares as he deals the day s first hand of cards.He thinks the mines and the factories will soon roar back to life, and if they don t, he believes they would have if Democrats and Republicans and the media   all  crooked as a barrel of fishhooks    had gotten out of the way. What Lewis has now that he didn t have before Trump is a belief that his president is pulling for people like him. One thing I hear in here a lot is that nobody s gonna push him into a corner,  says Whitt, 35.  He s a fighter. I think they like the bluntness of it. He plops down at an empty table next to the card game, drops a stack of mail onto his lap and begins flipping through the envelopes. Bill, bill, bill,  he reports to his wife, Chesla, who has arrived to relieve him at the restaurant they run together. He needs to run home and change of out his Frosty Freeze uniform, the first of several work ensembles he wears each day, and put on his second, a suit and tie. He also owns a local funeral home and he s the county coroner, elected as a Democrat.The Whitts, like many people here, cobble together a living with a couple jobs each   sometimes working 12 or 15 hours a day   because there aren t many options better than minimum wage. There s the school system, and a prison, and that s pretty much it. Outside of town, population 622, roads wind past rolling farms that used to grow tobacco before that industry crumbled too, then up into the hills of Appalachia, with its spectacular natural beauty and grinding poverty that has come to define this region in the American imagination.Whitt slides a medical bill across the table. Looks like this one is the new helmet,  he says, and his wife tears the envelope open and reports the debt: $3,995. They will add it to a growing pile that s already surpassed $40,000 since their son was born nine months ago with a rare condition. His skull was shaped like an egg, the bones fused together in places they shouldn t be. Tommy, their baby boy with big blue eyes, has now outgrown three of the helmets he s been required to wear after surgery so his bones grow back together like they should.They pay $800 a month for insurance. But when they took their baby to a surgeon in Cincinnati, they learned it was out of network. In-network hospitals offered only more invasive surgeries, so they opted to pay out of pocket. At the hospital they were told that if they d been on an insurance program for the poor, it would have all been free.This represents the cracks in America s institutions that drove Whitt, a lifelong Democrat, from supporting President Barack Obama to buying a  Make America Great Again  cap that he still keeps on top of the hutch. Many of their welfare-dependent neighbors, he believes, stay trapped in a cycle of handouts and poverty while hardworking taxpayers like him and his wife are stuck with the tab and can t get ahead. Where s the fairness in that?  he asks.But Whitt doesn t blame Trump for the failure this year to repeal the health care law and replace it with something better. He blames the  brick wall  in Washington, the politicians he sees as blocking everything Trump proposes while  small people  like them in small places like this are left again to languish.A third of people here live in poverty. Just 9 percent of adults have a college degree, but they always made up for that with backbreaking labor that workers traveled dozens of miles to neighboring counties or states to do, and those jobs have gotten harder to find.Many here blame global trade agreements and the  war on coal    environmental regulations designed by Obama s administration to curb carbon emissions   for the decline of mining and manufacturing jobs. When Trump bemoans the  American carnage  of lost factories and lost faith, it feels like he s talking to the people in these Appalachian hills. When he scraps dozens of regulations to the horror of environmentalists and says it means jobs are on the way, they embrace him.Coal has ticked up since Trump took office; mining companies have added 1,200 jobs across the country since his inauguration, more than 180 of them in Kentucky. But industry analysts say that was tied largely to market forces and dismiss Trump s repeated pledges to resuscitate the coal industry as pie in the sky. Coal has been on the decline for many decades for many reasons outside of regulation: far cheaper natural gas, mechanization, thinning Appalachian seams. With the opposition he s had, I think he s pulling the plow pretty good,  offers Wes Lewis from the card table. A few months ago, he says, he saw four brand-new coal rigs going through town.  For the longest time, under Obama, all we saw were trucks being pulled on wreckers, because people turned belly up, they went broke. Lewis says he s heard about friends of friends being called back to work. He s noticed new trucks in people s driveways, too, which he takes as evidence that his neighbors are feeling confident about their futures. These tiny signs stack up to him as proof. Lewis fishes the tag out of the bib of his overalls:  Made in Mexico,  it reads. Trump s bringing them back,  he says.Lewis, a registered Democrat, trusts Trump because he trusts his values. And because of that, he trusts Trump s other promises   so strongly he can t think of anything that would shake that faith in him. If the factories and mines don t come back, he ll blame the opposition. If there isn t a wall on the Mexico border, he says, it won t be because Trump didn t try. If investigators find his campaign colluded with Russians, it s because so many people are so determined to bring him down.Go HERE to read entire story.politics
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TEXT: why this democrat stronghold county voted for why they vote for him again he gon na push corner video ap news the regulars able dawn claim usual table one next old box television playing news white fires coffee pot flips fluorescent sign window frost freeze diner looks sounds smells opened ago coffee cents cup recalls cents the pot sits counter payment based honor like way thinks it reminds time world seemed stray away coal king values nation seemed values god country small county isolated foothills appalachian town comes diner nostalgia homestyle cooking and recently news reporters come world puzzle politics elliott county union stronghold voted democrat every presidential election donald trump came along promised wind back clock he hope waiting guy riding white horse there new energy everybody says white i still see despite president dismal approval ratings lethargic legislative achievements remains profoundly popular mountains region badly battered collapse coal industry became symbolic heart trump white genetic chun national news baseless twitter taunts daily declarations outrage scroll soundlessly across bottom diner television screen rarely registering when trump shoulder blame allegiance emotional means god guns patriotism saying merry christmas happy holidays it means validation indignation changing nation gay marriage immigration factories moving overseas it means tearing political system neglected favor big cities feel world counts believe trump delivered even promised renaissance yet materialized he punching people let long presidential embodiment discontent he already done enough get vote without doubt question wes lewis retired pipefitter one white regulars declares deals day first hand thinks mines factories soon roar back life believes would democrats republicans media crooked barrel fishhooks gotten way what lewis trump belief president pulling people like one thing i hear lot nobody gon na push corner says white he fighter i think like blindness he plots empty table next card game drops stack mail onto lap begins flipping envelopes bill bill bill reports wife chess arrived relieve restaurant run together he needs run home change frost freeze uniform first several work ensembles wears day put second suit tie he also owns local funeral home county coroner elected whites like many people gobble together living couple jobs sometimes working hours day many options better minimum wage there school system prison pretty much outside town population roads wind past rolling farms used grow tobacco industry stumbled hills appalachia spectacular natural beauty grinding poverty come define region american slides medical bill across table looks like one new helmet says wife tears envelope open reports debt they add growing pile already surpassed since son born nine months ago rare condition his skull shaped like egg bones fused together places tommy baby boy big blue eyes outgrowth three helmets required wear surgery bones grow back together like pay month insurance but took baby surgeon cincinnati learned network hospitals offered invasive surgeries opted pay pocket at hospital told insurance program poor would represents cracks america institutions drove white lifelong democrat supporting president barack obama buying make america great again cap still keeps top dutch many neighbors believes stay trapped cycle handouts poverty hardworking taxpayers like wife stuck tab get ahead where fairness white blame trump failure year repeal health care law replace something better he blames brick wall washington politicians sees blocking everything trump proposes small people like small places like left third people live poverty just percent adults college degree always made backbreaking labor workers traveled dozens miles neighboring counties states jobs gotten harder blame global trade agreements war coal environmental regulations designed obama administration curb carbon emissions decline mining manufacturing jobs when trump beans american carnage lost factories lost faith feels like talking people appalachian hills when scraps dozens regulations horror environmentalists says means jobs way embrace picked since trump took office mining companies added jobs across country since inauguration kentucky but industry analysts say tied largely market forces dismiss trump repeated pledges resuscitate coal industry pie sky coal decline many decades many reasons outside regulation far cheaper natural gas mechanization thinning appalachian seams with opposition i think pulling plow pretty good offers wes lewis card table a months ago says saw four coal rigs going town for longest time obama saw trucks pulled wrecked people turned belly went broke lewis says heard friends friends called back work he noticed new trucks people driveway takes evidence neighbors feeling confident futures these tiny signs stack proof lewis fishes tag bib overall made mexico reads trump bringing back registered democrat trusts trump trusts values and trusts trump promises strongly think anything would shake faith if factories mines come back blame opposition if wall mexico border says trump try if investigators find campaign collided russian many people determined bring here read entire