2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI recently moved to a much more Republican part of my state and have seen Trump signs come down
So my fiance and I decided to move further up in Maryland to get twice as much house for half the price and it is a more conservative part of the state. It is much more Republican and less diverse than the DC/MD suburbs we lived in previously. When I first began driving around and getting myself familiar with the local stores I noticed a lot of Trump signs. When I went to my bank to meet with a rep to go over some things he told me that its kind of backwards. He is of mixed heritage but said some of the people in my new town didn't think he was Black and would say disparaging things about Blacks to his face and he'd have to be like whoa whoa timeout.
My particular neighborhood I was lucky enough to have diverse neighbors. Interracial couple directly across the street. Black neighbors to the left and right of me. White couple across the street to the right and Latino couple across the street to the left. I'm near an army facility so I have a good number of military in my neighborhood. That helps with the diversity.
Anywho....ever since the tax issue and the leaked Billy Bush tape came out I have to say that I have seen several Trump signs come down where I know I had seen them up before. Instead, the person may have just another Republican candidate up but took their Trump sign down. So either they are just embarrassed to have it up and still intend to vote for Trump, or they really hopefully wised up and realized they have been had and will just vote down ballot. So I don't know what its like in other areas where some folk are but I've seen Trump signs come down.
Dem2
(8,178 posts)I am about to start going out and documenting photographically some of these small businesses that seem to think this is the kind of person they want to support. I think I'm going to make them live to regret these decisions.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)My family lived were born, went to school, daycare and worked there around Frederick, Myersville, and Hagerstown.
I drove to D.C. For work