“This is the first years I’ve actually followed politics. When I was a kid, I didn’t give a fuck about stuff like this.”
Joe’s been hustling political swag to Trump supporters for about ten months, ever since he got laid off from working on the pipeline, a job he held for about four years. He’s sold t-shirts, signs, and buttons for both sides, but, admittedly, the Clinton crowds don’t buy as much.
Even while discussing issues like illegal immigration, Joe is good humored and even-keeled. “On the pipeline, guys from Honduras would overstay their visas, and send every check straight back to Honduras, and then they’d ask you to borrow ten bucks. It’s like, come on, man,” he says with a laugh.
But overall, he thinks the economy around Andover is decent. “A lot of truck drivers and farmers here, I’d say people are doing pretty good. Some people say they’re looking for work, but they’re really going through the motions, looking for a job, but they’re playing video games at night. They’re not actually getting after it.”
Joe has been a supporter of Donald Trump since early in the campaign. “The toughness of his speech, from the beginning, he was saying the things that everybody was talking about, a lot of politicians didn’t like to bring up, and he was bringing it up. It felt like you had a voice.”
Andover, OH:
• Population: 1,124.
• Per capita income: $12,834.
• 93.7% white, 2.8% black.
• Percentage below the poverty line: 35.1%.
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