STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – One of the many things that the cosmopolitan class, living in and around Washington, New York or Silicon Valley, continues to misread about the people living outside those areas is this: it is not just fans of Donald Trump who feel alienated by the popular attitudes and assumptions about them.

One key assumption is that these people hate where they live, can’t wait to leave, feel tethered to their hometown’s decline, or have lost hope for a brighter future.