Quote Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
Victor Davis Hanson is one of my favorite writers, I think this article points to a significant part of the explanation:

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump and the American Divide
How a lifelong New Yorker became tribune of the rustics and deplorables

This map ( 2016 US Presidential Election Map By County and Vote Share ) illustrates the situation quite well, I think. The US has like 3100 counties, Trump won more than 2500 of them, without the most urban ones HRC would have lost the popular vote by millions.
Good recommendation, do you have more of these articles?