One huge change re education levels and political divides that isn't talked about enough is that the proportion of adults w/ higher education has gone up by like a factor of 5 since the 50s. The DJT people are in part nostalgic for a time when there were / theatlantic.com/education/arch… / fewer educated people to be encountered in day-to-day life. I grew up in a rural place and the hateful resentment of educated people is so common that it's socially acceptable to express it in numerous ways. A certain type of person chooses to take it as a personal insult /