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Precisely. Even down to the local level, including in rural areas, christofash are a distinctly gentry lot.
The biggest funders of white Christian nationalism in the US are billionaires.
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In my raised-in-the-backwoods, many-generations-a-hick experience, Christofascism is almost exclusively concentrated amongst upper middle class and wealthy folks. Lots of poor folks go in for white nationalism, sans Jesus. Few are on board with a church telling them what to do.
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Not that the latter isn't a problem, but it's a different problem. Also: I know lots of poor rural folks who aren't interested in white nationalism at all, and think just as poorly of the Trumpsters/friends of David Duke in their midst as the rest of us do.
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We're in a pervasively raciat society, so it has an effect damn near everywhere. But for fash in general the base is upper-middle class and above. Growing up, the comfortably well-off were far more zealously racist than almost any poor person I met.
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Related: across races, poor rural folks generally know why you can't trust the police.
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That was my experience growing up in poverty (in the rural South, in the '90s) as well.
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The church demands an appearance of piety that a lot of rednecks find fake/hypocritical. Democrats often find similar problems getting toe-holds with this group, though, because of the "pointy headed liberalism" and paternalism. No one wants to support people who look down their noses at them.
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There is absolutely a "mind your own goddamn business" rural anti-clericalism that I really appreciate.