Just a story that is illustrative of why PEOTUS Trump won the election.

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ABERDEEN, Wash. — Before coal became king and the Rust Belt rusted, the Pacific Northwest began building an economy based on timber. The Oregon Country shipped its first load of logs to China in 1833.

A century later, as national politics and the Great Depression intruded, this remote and rainy corner of the country became an early West Coast battleground for workers' rights, with bitter strikes silencing lumber mills for months. It also became a stronghold for the Democratic Party, a place where immigrants and their children embraced President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his promise of solid wages for timber workers.

The region defied the Republican landslides that swept Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan into office in 1952 and 1980. It even stayed Democratic after Bill Clinton and later President Barack Obama sharply reduced logging in old-growth forests to save an endangered bird, the northern spotted owl.

Then came 2016.

For the first time since Herbert Hoover won the White House in 1928, Aberdeen and the other small outposts that make up Grays Harbor County here on the Washington coast did not vote for a Democrat for president. This year, they chose Donald Trump.

"We could sense that there was a change happening in the harbor," said Steven Puvogel, who was chosen earlier this month as the new chairman of the Grays Harbor Democrats at their "reorganizational" meeting, which doubled as an election postmortem.
"Trump signs were popping up everywhere, but I didn't see a Hillary sign until I put one up myself," he said. "They were hard to even get around here."

Throughout the region, from Washington to Northern California, historic timber-producing counties voted for Trump. Some had been Republican for years, while others had swung back and forth. Some, like Grays Harbor and its neighbor to the south, Pacific County, had not voted Republican in decades. (Pacific went for Eisenhower in 1952 but quickly returned to the Democrats in 1956.)

And while they did not generate a single electoral vote for the president-elect, who lost by substantial statewide margins in Washington, Oregon and California, they did send a defiant message that coal country and the declining manufacturing core of the Midwest are not the only "old" economic regions where many working-class families feel that the Democratic Party has forgotten them and the role they played in building the country.

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/t...ocid=spartanntp