Why Iowa Has Become Such a Heartbreaker for Democrats Trip Gabriel © Jacob Moscovitch for The New York Times A woman with cutouts of the president and vice president in her backyard in Burlington, Iowa. The city’s population peaked around 1970.
BURLINGTON, Iowa Tom Courtney and Terry Davis are former factory workers in Des Moines County along the Mississippi River in eastern Iowa, two men of similar age who skipped college but thrived in a community where blue-collar jobs used to be an engine of upward mobility.
In 2008, Mr. Courtney’s daughter Shawna married Mr. Davis’s son Shannon. They celebrated at a rehearsal dinner at the Drake, a steak restaurant on the riverfront in Burlington. The two men are grandparents to Shawna’s daughters from her first marriage, and they occasionally met on the sidelines of Little League games.
Why Iowa has become such a heartbreaker for Democrats: Iowans have changed
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The so-called “
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