ANATEL tem q acabar , e pra ontem <| sep |> In a conversation with The Washington Post , Peterson said that Donald Trump owes his victory to rural voters who feel they ' ve been abandoned by a Democratic Party that has become increasingly urban and liberal . That abandonment has happened in part because of Republican efforts to gerrymander Democratic voters into tightly packed urban districts , he said . Few Democratic lawmakers now represent rural districts such as Peterson ' s , where voters care more about agricultural policy and trade than they do about gun control , LGBT issues or questions about minority representation . Unless Democrats are able to regain control of governorships and statehouses before the 2020 Census to ungerrymander the districts , that dynamic ' s not likely to change , no matter what policy proposals Democrats put on the table . CP A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that ' s going on . That ' s what I hear from people , and I was hearing that before the election , too . They don ' t like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives . They think the government is coddling people , like when people ' s feelings are hurt at the colleges and they send somebody in to make them feel better . Stuff like that drives voters here crazy . I heard a lot about the Affordable Care Act , too . About how people in the individual market were getting clobbered with all these increases , which is a legitimate issue . You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County . There ' s no way a family can pay $ 15 , 000 , $ 20 , 000 a year for health insurance and make it work . You just can ' t do it . It ' s got to change . I always run ahead of the ticket compared to Democratic presidential candidates . But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line , a lot more than usual . There ' s no question that Trump got elected because of rural America . And our party still is in denial . They don ' t get it . TWP So what does the Democratic Party need to do to ' get it '? What do they need to start talking about to win these voters back ? CP Well , I don ' t know if they can . What ' s happened is the Republicans have been smart . They ' ve spent a lot of money redistricting and everything , getting control of these governorships and statehouses . So they packed all the Democrats into districts , very Democratic districts . What that ' s done is made our party urban , more liberal , and so those people are doing what their constituents want . But that ' s not what my constituents want . I don ' t know how you change that . There ' s hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress . These districts have been so gerrymandered that , in most of them , a Democrat can ' t win . Somebody like me trying to start off today , he ' d never get endorsed . Because I ' m too conservative . So it ' s a problem . Pushing gun control drives people in my district crazy , gay marriage , abortion , deficit spending , you name it . All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats .