[Peace-discuss] Identity vs. class again

[Szoke, Ron]

Studies confirm: Trump voters were motivated by racial prejudice — not ‘economic anxiety’
Raw Story
TRAVIS GETTYS<http://www.rawstory.com/author/travis/>
06 APR 2017 AT 14:47 ET<http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/06/>
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Progressives like Sens. Bernie Sanders<http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326820-sanders-defends-trump-voters-i-dont-think-theyre-racists> (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.

“Income predicted support for (John) McCain and (Mitt) Romney, but not Trump,” wrote analysts Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel recently in The Nation<https://www.thenation.com/article/fear-of-diversity-made-people-more-likely-to-vote-trump/>.

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.

In fact, white voters backed Trump regardless of their age, gender, income and education.
“Racial identity and attitudes have further displaced class as the central battleground of American politics,” McElwee and McDaniel wrote.

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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.

~~ Ron

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