If you drive through small to medium sized towns in Ohio, Indiana, etc you will often find a closed factory, mill, or some other manufacturing building that use

If you drive through small to medium sized towns in Ohio, Indiana, etc you will often find a closed factory, mill, or some other manufacturing building that used to employ most of the town. But the jobs were shipped overseas or eliminated by automation, and the town is very poor and run down now. Previously the jobs paid a good wage and most of the town were middle class or upper middle class. Now they are largely lower class and are mad as hell about it. Most Democrats blame racism, lack of education, etc on why Trump won. No Trump won because the people in those towns want to be middle class again and he campaigned on helping them. Clinton campaigned on helping the generic poor just like most of the current candidates except Yang. Trump clearly hasn't helped them but Democrats need a candidate who speaks directly to them too.