Cossy
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The Trump supporters I have come across tend to be very conservative, Bible believing Christians. He courts them, he knows that is where his vocal support is - in the pulpits down South. I would guess many churches would support him from the pulpit.
The issue with a lot of the “Bible Belts” is their extreme views on women and their rights. Any woman voting for Trump is very odd indeed!
Any woman voting for Trump is very odd indeed!
Different mindset.
If you've been raised to honour country, God, family - respecting menfolk as providers and protectors, women's rights will seem unnecessary and alien.
Many years ago, I used to chat on a forum populated mostly by Americans (it was a health forum, but there was also a section for off-topic chat). As a European, I was frequently taken to task for my political outlook, and the question of women's rights was just as frequently dismissed - by both sexes - as 'liberal nonsense'. I once suggested that commercial pornography relied heavily on the exploitation of women and that it encouraged men to see them as sexual objects - that caused quite a backlash against me, and my 'European' way of thinking! The consensus was that pornography was a legitimate business, and that as long as women were not trafficked, there was absolutely nothing wrong with it because everyone understood that men had needs and it probably stopped them from having to use prostitutes 
. Some of the women genuinely believed that if you found a "good man" who worked hard to provide for his family, that alone was sufficient for a woman to be "happy" in the home.
Trump is accepted without question about his, erm, errant ways with women because in spite of this being his 3rd marriage, he presents as the family man who loves his offspring - he waxed lyrical after the death of his first wife, Ivana, about her qualities... she helped him run the family casinos. "She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life" he wrote.
How could you not forgive him 
!
His 'observations' about women - the derogatory things he's said, are all dismissed as locker-room talk - men just being men.
I'd chatted to these women for months about health problems on the forum and they were lovely and supportive and helpful - they simply think quite differently to many of us because theirs is another culture.
I don't think they are odd - American culture can be, in many ways, incompatible with ours. But I think you need to understand their history.
Women and men have been socialized by family members, educators, and the media to associate leadership with a particular version of masculinity, an image Trump exemplified in his persona as the supremely successful businessman. He reinforced the masculine, leader-as-savior image with repeated claims that he alone could make America great again.
Source: Harvard Business School
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