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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Studies confirm: Trump voters were motivated by racial prejudice — not ‘economic anxiety’</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/06/" class=""><b class="">06 APR 2017 AT 14:47 ET</b></a><b class=""> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Progressives like <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326820-sanders-defends-trump-voters-i-dont-think-theyre-racists" class="">
<span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(56, 56, 56);" class=""><b class="">Sens. Bernie Sanders</b></span></a> (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and filmmaker Michael Moore have argued that income inequality — and not bigotry
and xenophobia — fueled Trump’s rise, but many analysts aren’t buying that explanation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Income predicted support for (John) McCain and (Mitt) Romney, but not Trump,” wrote analysts Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel recently in
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Trump won the votes of a majority of non-college-educated whites, but he also won a majority of college-educated whites, and he drew the support of more young white voters than Clinton and a majority of white women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">In fact, white voters backed Trump regardless of their age, gender, income and education.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Racial identity and attitudes have further displaced class as the central battleground of American politics,” McElwee and McDaniel wrote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Note that I am as skeptical of the “studies show that …” & the “there is no evidence that …” lines as of most other assertions in this area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~ Ron</span></div>
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