Analysis: Steve Bullock’s focus on rural America must include black and Latino farmers
By Eugene Scott Eugene Scott Reporter covering identity politics for The Fix Email Bio Follow May 14 at 12:36 PM Montana Gov. Steve Bullock just jumped into the 2020 presidential race. He has said he’ll focus on winning a demographic group that usually backs the GOP — rural voters, 60 percent of whom supported Trump in 2016.
In framing the election this way, Bullock is wading into one of the biggest divides in the Democratic Party — whether campaigns should focus on the mostly white working class voters who turned out for Trump or the nonwhite and young voters who turned out for Hillary Clinton at a rate much lower than for Barack Obama or didn’t turn out at all.
More than one-fifth of the approximately 60 million people living in rural America are people of color, according to the U.S. Census and American Community Survey . And these Americans vote differently than the rural voters that some Democrats believe the left should focus on winning back. And it also appears that these rural Americans vote for different candidates than rural whites. A look at county-level voting and demographic data suggests that this rural America voted for Hillary Clinton.
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