White, working-class, socially conservative areas around Pittsburgh helped secure the state and the White House in 2016 – some voters see no reason to switch
Beaver county in rural western Pennsylvania is dotted with red, white and blue Vote Trump banners along its winding country roads and on shopfronts of local businesses closed by the pandemic.
It’s a predominantly white, working-class, socially conservative county hit hard by the demise of the steel industry and the opioid epidemic. Now it is also bearing the brunt of Covid-19 unemployment, which has caused unprecedented demand for food aid, and yet also seems to have bolstered support for Trump among once-loyal Democrats.
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