You're clearly not a dairy producer in Wisconsin, a military contractor in Virginia/Maryland, or a property owner in Southern Pines, NC.

But he also saw the job as a lifetime career, which is partly generational and partly just a different mindset because a lot (most?) of the engineers there were former military.

I will say, though, that his mindset generally made for a very friendly and nurturing team experience.

I was just giving it as an example of how whole tertiary industries that aren't directly part of the military-industrial complex will none-the-less vote (R) like their lifestyle depends on it, and for the same reason as contractors.

West Virginia has "Friends of Coal" license plates. Indiana has IUOE license plates. etc.

Wow, I had no idea

I work with software, maybe in a way then I'm in a happy bubble