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Clinton, Iowa -- Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017

Blaise Aadland, 16, (cq) watches his brothers play basketball in an empty lot near their home.


A transformation to a knowledge-based economy has not taken root here in Clinton, Iowa along the Mississippi River. But there has been a profound structural change of another sort: white working class voters switched from Democrat to solidly Republican in the last presidential election, upending decades of political predictability.

CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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Clinton, Iowa -- Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017<br /> <br /> Blaise Aadland, 16, (cq) watches his brothers play basketball in an empty lot near their home.<br /> <br /> <br /> A transformation to a knowledge-based economy has not taken root here in Clinton, Iowa along the Mississippi River. But there has been a profound structural change of another sort: white working class voters switched from Democrat to solidly Republican in the last presidential election, upending decades of political predictability.<br /> <br /> CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times <br /> 30211753A
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