text: Well, the thrust of my original post was that majority of voters in both rural and urban areas in Alaska acted against their own economic interest by electing Trump.  Looks like only the urban voters did so.  Trump did not run on platform of deficit reduction, so my guess is that only a portion of the Trump voters actually support reigning in federal spending through massive cuts to the biggest drivers of the deficit--social security, medicare, and defense.  That's more of a neoconservative thing, well except for cuts to defense.