There are many polls and discussions out there, and as others said, when dealing with the feelings of hundreds of millions of people, especially with a culture that has pushed more division, those feelings will vary widely even within what may be seen as the same demographic.
Personally, I am happier when the US gets pushback from the wider international community. While I agree that the world state at the moment has put power into too few hands leaving others struggling to stand up to them, I think in our best interests is to at least work towards reducing that power monopoly rather than crumbling under it.
Surely our best interest lies in ensuring the US remains a steadfast economic and military ally by acquiesing on this issue although it is painful.
The US government already regularly threatens financial institutions outside its own territories for information on people. It did this even before the government under Obama brought in FATCA, it's only grown exponentially since then to the point that banking in the UK is impacted by US laws and threats. Rolling over so far has only encouraged the US governments to go farther.
I get wanting to keep one of the bullies happy, but that's a short term solution at best.
I lived in a red state many many years ago in a rural area and it’s going to sound mean but there a lot of really dumb people out there.
I lived in a swing state that became a deep red state in large part because those who would vote Democrat stopped voting at all or went third party out of lack of trust and anger after the large mess and dismissal that first Clinton and later Obama did to those 'fly over states' and those who swung voted more Republican in anger.
There are abysmal schools in every state, particularly in cities - and US cities have largely been run by Democrats - as much like many other places including the UK, governments have cut spending and tried to place a lot of control on schools. It's not specifically a rural issue, and making it one is part of the problem. It's not rural vs urban, as much people like to paint.
And really, calling people dumb may feel good, but it has little benefit.
I lived in rural ALABAMA so I do know what actual hillbillies are like.
If you were around very pro-government, pro US people in the south, you're likely not talking about hillbillies, but American Evangelical Southerners - since the 70s when they became politicalised, it's been a big thing about American best and not much else matters beyond the US and their ideas of God. They're the ones entangled in the Trump stuff, not the hillbillies who in general hate all governments.
Alabama is only relevant if you were in Appalachia. I know there is this idea that the farther south you go, the more hillbillies, even within the US, but hillbillies specifically are from the Appalachian and Ozarks areas, so go as far north as eastern Canada and in Appalachia, most are closer to the middle of the mountain chain, near the Virginias.
Appalachians in general, are very anti-government. At all. That's why communities were build in the mountains. The entire stereotype is build around them not keeping up with technology that is difficult to put up in the mountain and thus falling behind in education and culture. They are more likely to fall for that Freeman of the land scam as it suits them, but - in general, they aren't a homogenous group - Appalachians don't trust politicians - great at other community organising, great at helping others in a disaster, but in general, have a distaste for political stuff - not surprising when we've seen recently how politicians treat Appalachians during a disaster.
I just feel if Trump is determined to get Greenland should this be a hill we did on in support of Denmark and it's sovreignty of an arctic territory where historically the native people have not been treated well.
American and British troops don't use rape as a weapon of war.
Many people keeps reminding of how Denmark has treated the indigenous populations of Greenland - it's well documented how the Americans governments have treated the indigenous populations, and yes it does involve rape, it involves taking girls as 'translators' to rape them for many years, there are millions of indigenous girls and women missing in the US now, not historically.
But, we Americans are pretty radical when it comes to speech.
I find the US likes to talk a lot about how radical it is on free speech, but not really do it in practice. I mean, it's within living memory where many American Indigenous religious practices and speech on those practices were federally banned including things like traditional dancing & singing, and in some areas those practices are still under contention with uneasiness with local authorities.
There are also multiple cases of people being arrested and jailed for social media shite, just like those Americans who go on about free speech love to point at UK and the rest of Europe for doing. Shocker - the authoritarian US government acts authoritarian when it can, even if it's against the general principles the country claims to stand on, because there are little consequences when it does so.