But especially since the election, there has been a tacit agreement not to talk about presidential politics, except among small, trusted groups of like-minded friends. PhotoThen in November, many rural, blue-collar voters who had previously favored Barack Obama turned their support to Mr. Trump, helping him win the state by almost 23,000 votes. Democrats asked: How can they talk about politics with Republicans when the Republicans don’t even believe that Mr. Obama was a United States citizen? (Mr. Exner said he believed Mr. Obama’s birth certificate was a fake, but he does not talk about it unprompted.) They have not talked about Mr. Trump since the election.

Source: New York Times January 28, 2017 21:15 UTC