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Tue May 9, 2017, 11:53 AM

"Cultural Anxiety" drove white voters to Trump, Economic anxiety sent them to Clinton





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Response to iluvtennis (Original post)

Tue May 9, 2017, 12:08 PM

1. How does "cultural anxiety" differ from straight up racism?

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Response to Orrex (Reply #1)

Tue May 9, 2017, 12:28 PM

4. It sounds prettier!

Same bullshit though


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Response to leftstreet (Reply #4)

Tue May 9, 2017, 12:46 PM

5. LOL. Good answer! (nt)

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Response to Orrex (Reply #1)

Tue May 9, 2017, 01:54 PM

10. +++ agree. no difference. just like using alt-right instead of white supremacy

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Response to iluvtennis (Original post)

Tue May 9, 2017, 12:17 PM

2. "cultural anxiety" is the polite term for racism now?

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Response to iluvtennis (Original post)

Tue May 9, 2017, 12:21 PM

3. Here are the details

Identification with the Republican Party. Identifying as Republican, not surprisingly, was strongly predictive of Trump support. White working-class voters who identified as Republican were 11 times more likely to support Trump than those who did not identify as Republican. No other demographic attribute was significant.

Fears about cultural displacement. White working-class voters who say they often feel like a stranger in their own land and who believe the U.S. needs protecting against foreign influence were 3.5 times more likely to favor Trump than those who did not share these concerns.

Support for deporting immigrants living in the country illegally. White working-class voters who favored deporting immigrants living in the country illegally were 3.3 times more likely to express a preference for Trump than those who did not.

Economic fatalism. White working-class voters who said that college education is a gamble were almost twice as likely to express a preference for Trump as those who said it was an important investment in the future.

https://www.prri.org/research/white-working-class-attitudes-economy-trade-immigration-election-donald-trump/

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Response to brooklynite (Reply #3)

Tue May 9, 2017, 12:51 PM

7. In other words, white nationalism and xenophobia animate WWC'ers moreso than medical care

 

for their families.

Our country is screwed, bigly, as long as they vote in high numbers.

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Response to brooklynite (Reply #3)

Tue May 9, 2017, 02:04 PM

12. So tying tRump to Russia and making clear how awful Putin is would be an effective approach to erode

his base. Presumably.
(those) who believe the U.S. needs protecting against foreign influence were 3.5 times more likely to favor Trump than those who did not share these concerns.

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Response to JudyM (Reply #12)

Wed May 10, 2017, 11:52 AM

15. whites like putin

 

they think he will save their whiteness

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Response to burnbaby (Reply #15)

Wed May 10, 2017, 12:45 PM

17. Because MSM is not doing its job. But the older voters don't trust Putin.

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Response to JudyM (Reply #17)

Wed May 10, 2017, 01:09 PM

18. makes sense about

 

the older voters. They grew up in fear of Russia

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Response to iluvtennis (Original post)

Tue May 9, 2017, 12:50 PM

6. And this is the tough part for us--we need to win back some bigoted, ignorant dumbfucks

 

to win in OH, WI, MI, PA, and IA.

When the very distillation of the essence of being a bigoted, ignorant dumbfuck is our political opponent.

The best we can do is discourage as many WWC'ers from voting as possible.

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Response to iluvtennis (Original post)

Tue May 9, 2017, 12:53 PM

8. I'm pretty sure PoC like me have been screaming this from the start

Glad to see it officially confirmed...

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Response to Blue_Tires (Reply #8)

Tue May 9, 2017, 01:04 PM

9. Women and POC saw the anger rise and get louder but so many told us to discount it- that these

 

People would be happy if we just took torches and pitchforks to the billionaires- and then they elected one.

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Response to Blue_Tires (Reply #8)

Tue May 9, 2017, 02:10 PM

13. Yep

Been screaming this for years. Republicans have known this since Nixon. They base their whole campaign and platform on it.

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Response to iluvtennis (Original post)

Tue May 9, 2017, 02:00 PM

11. *nope*

 

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Response to iluvtennis (Original post)

Wed May 10, 2017, 11:49 AM

14. I'll just leave this here:

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Response to iluvtennis (Original post)

Wed May 10, 2017, 12:34 PM

16. Noted and Filed Under "Well, Duh!"

The "bring back jobs" thing was a smokescreen to get the WH back into the hands of a white guy. There was never anything else to it, especially given the number of "it" voters here where everyone is well paid and either highly educated or reasonably educated but very skilled.

These aren't jobs being taken away by low wage immigrants. They just didn't like how "black" the White House had become.

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