Puncturing the myth that most Trump voters were working class

[kpete]

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/?utm_term=.2983e91237d3

[jmg257]

1. The surveys of him getting 2x of their support than Hillary probably threw them off.

"Perhaps the most contested question from the 2016 presidential election is what factors motivated white working-class voters to support Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by a margin of roughly two to one.

New analysis by PRRI and The Atlantic, based on surveys conducted before and after the 2016 election, developed a model to test a variety of potential factors influencing support for Trump among white working-class voters. .."

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

[ehrnst]

7. Those who reported being in fair or poor financial shape were 1.7 x more likely to support HRC"

"Economic factors played a much smaller role, suggesting that Trump’s rise was shaped more by cultural and racial concerns than by economics. For example, white working-class voters who displayed economic fatalism — measured through the belief that getting a college education is “a gamble” — were only twice as likely to prefer Trump.

And economic hardship among white working-class Americans actually predicted more support for Hillary Clinton, not Trump: Although not highly statistically significant, the survey found that “[t]hose who reported being in fair or poor financial shape were 1.7 times more likely to support Clinton, compared to those who were in better financial shape.” This finding rebukes the common sentiment that poor white Americans came out in droves to put Trump over the top in 2016."



https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/9/15592634/trump-clinton-racism-economy-prri-survey

[melm00se]

2. Question

Does this analysis hold up at the state level especially in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania?

[cwydro]

3. Before the election, I saw many Trump signs displayed in very wealthy areas of the city.

Homes owned by bankers, lawyers, doctors and so on.

[spanone]

4. i experienced the same phenomena. i assumed they liked the tax breaks he was promising.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. The article doesn't compare the stats with stats for the general population or electorate.

(at least not that I could find in a skim)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. The only thing the cretins who voted for Trump have in common is being deplorable.