...............One thing that Zito discovered regarding the Democratic collapse with white working class voters is the level of the destruction. I mean, it’s a total wipeout in the Appalachian areas. Out of 490 counties that dot this region, Clinton only won 21 of them, mostly because these places contained college campuses, which boosted the number of college liberals:  ..............

  ............  Two days later and they still don't get it," said Brad Todd, a Washington based Republican consultant …

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    Brad Todd has gotten this cultural disconnect for a very long time, reaching back to the 2006 midterm elections that threw his party out of power. Todd, the founding partner of On Message, a GOP media strategy firm based in Washington, has never lost his connection to the five generations of Tennesseans that came before him.

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    After Tuesday's election, Todd took a look at the beloved Appalachian voters who he is most connected to and started drawing a map of what just happened in America.

    The numbers were devastating to these once-reliable Democratic voters.

    "There are 490 counties in Appalachia technically, which is defined by federal law. Hillary Clinton won 21 counties in that region," he said.

    And that is it. She did not win a single county in Appalachia that is mostly white, non-college-educated and has a population of under 100,000 people.

    Not one county.

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    What does all of this data tell you about America? Todd says it is simple, "There are absolutely no more blue-collar whites in the Democratic Party. They just don't exist, even the ones who want there to be have recognized there is no room for them," he said.

    These voters had stayed with the Democrats forever and now 80 percent of them in Appalachia have voted Republican. "That means they don't know anyone who voted for her," he said.

    Why is this astounding? Because nothing gets eighty percent in this world, especially in politics, except for the numbers Democrats get in the inner cities..............

...........Now, this isn’t all rosy news. Don’t get me wrong, it further shows that while the Democrats probably thought the charm of Obama would last forever with their folks, the party was being eaten alive from the inside. They woke up to find that Clinton isn’t president, with the GOP controlling 33 governorships, 69/99 state legislatures, and Congress. The era of Obama ended with the destruction of the Democratic Party.............

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