Rural whites more concerned about jobs, working immigrants and children's economic future than other whites % of whites in each group saying
The NBC News national exit poll documented how Trump and his populist message disproportionately appealed to both white men and women living in rural America. A recent survey by Pew Research Center, conducted this spring in association with the Markle Foundation, illustrates the depth of their financial frustrations with the status quo on some key economic measures – anxieties that are more deeply felt by rural whites than by whites living in the nation’s cities or suburbs.
The Pew Research Center survey, conducted May 25 to June 29, 2016, with a nationally representative sample of 5,006 adults, suggests that the broad economic concerns of rural white Americans align to a striking degree with several key issues that were among the cornerstones of the Trump campaign: jobs, immigrants and fears about an eroding standard of living. Moreover, these anxieties are more deeply felt among rural whites than among whites in the cities or suburbs. Among the issues:
Rural whites more concerned about jobs, working immigrants and children's  | economic future than other whites  | % of whites in each group saying  | Jobs in their community  | The growing number of  | Their children's standard  | are hard to find  | immigrants is hurting growing American working in workers the ULS  | of living will be worse  | is hurting American working workers  | than theirs is  | 33  | Rural  | 69%  | 65  | Suburban  | 54  | 52  | 28  | Urban  | 45  | 48  | 23  | Source: Survey of U.S adults conducted May 25-June 29, 2016.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 