McDowell County, North Carolina, loves Donald Trump, and showed it by voting for him 74-25% in 2024. As The News and Observer noted, “The county of about 45,000 in the mountains of western North Carolina is still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Helene a year ago. Its difficulties have been made worse by a low level of federal relief funding and bungling by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Trump and his Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem.”

As we’ve discussed, MAGA-loving states are poor and depend heavily on the federal government, which means they’re funded disproportionately by blue states and urban America. So when they vote for a Republican Party that holds nothing but disdain for poor Americans, they are voting for a government that systematically wreak

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