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Odin2005

(53,521 posts) Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:05 AM Aug 2016

Trump's base is NOT poor whites. [View all]

I just heard an interesting story on NPR's Morning Edition this morning saying that while Trump's base IS blue collar it isn't low income as is popularly claimed, it is primarily better paid blue collar workers without a college education with deep anxieties about outsourcing and "immigrants taking their jobs" as well as cultural resentments against "pointy-headed liberal" college-educated people.

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Trump's base is NOT poor whites. [View all] Odin2005 Aug 2016 OP

That makes sense, but I think that at least part of his base is comprised of cali Aug 2016 #1

We've been driving through parts of the woodsprite Aug 2016 #4

Salon article on broad data: Ilsa Aug 2016 #2

That point about people in manufacturing favoring Clinton is interesting. Odin2005 Aug 2016 #3

Thanks, Ilsa. Here's a link to the full article. hedda_foil Aug 2016 #5

Thank you. I forgot to copy that from the other reply. nt Ilsa Aug 2016 #8

Also where I live I see trump signs in republican suburbs . Have people forgotten who the republican Person 2713 Aug 2016 #6

Also from the above Salon article regarding race... Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #7

its white people undergoing racial panic at not being guaranteed a privileged spot geek tragedy Aug 2016 #9