What Trump Supporters really are..

[Photographer]

Last edited Thu Aug 11, 2016, 07:33 PM - Edit history (1)

The data reveals more specific correlations, using number one as the perfect match for Trump support. Here are a few of those correlations:

White with no high school diploma equals correlation 0.61
Percent reporting ancestry as “American” equals correlation 0.57
Percent living in a mobile home equals correlation 0.54
“Old economy” jobs including agriculture, construction, manufacturing equals correlation 0.5

While Trump also has support among the affluent and the well-educated, the data shows that support for him runs the strongest among the proportion of the white population that didn’t finish high school, working-age adults who neither have a job nor are looking for one, and people living in mobile homes. The article concludes:

“’It’s a nonurban, blue-collar and now apparently quite angry population,’ said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. ’They’re not people who have moved around a lot, and things have been changing away from them, but they live in areas that feel stagnant in a lot of ways.’”

With this, the importance of accessible education for everyone becomes very apparent.

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/03/14/the-geography-of-trumpism-where-do-they-come-from/ Please disregard the title.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/upshot/the-geography-of-trumpism.html

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. Better education, plus...

... actually bring back manufacturing jobs.

Sacrificing REAL production in favor of money management on a global scale is actually a security threat now. We could get hit by a large coronal mass ejection from the Sun (or a high-altitude nuclear blast) that could wipe out our electrical power grid, and this country doesn't even manufacture large transformers anymore.

Not to mention that a money management focus isn't a truly essential "skill," and it's just making income inequality worse over time too.

[Brickbat]

2. It might be more useful to post the original article, which is misattributed in the source you

posted. What you posted is rewritten from a NYT article, not a New Yorker article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/upshot/the-geography-of-trumpism.html

[Photographer]

4. Thanks.

Eerps, page not found.

[Brickbat]

6. Corrected.

[SheriffBob]

3. The first thing that popped up in my mind was

racists, bigots, and greedy people.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Don't forget the "Christians"!

Jesus would be proud.

A recent FOX poll had Trump leading among white Evangelical Christians, 69% to 19%.

[SheriffBob]

11. they are hypocrites

I doubt if anyone of them follow the wisdom of "The Sermon On The Mount"


i am not a bible thumper and have not been in a church in over 60 years.

I doubt if any fundamental Christians adhere to it's teachings.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Agreed. I'm agnostic now, but I've read the Bible and...

... used to attend church as a kid. How many of the teachings of the New Testament have been so perverted over the years is amazing. It also seems like many Christians seem more focused on the Old Testament although Jesus supposedly gave humanity a "new covenant" that replaced the old.

I attended a Methodist church as a child and the focus was always on love and trying to help the less fortunate, not using the Bible as some judgmental weapon like the Pharisees were described.

[SheriffBob]

16. right on

The Sermon actually says we don't need churches. It says that religion should not be flaunted for reasons of personal vanity.

There are many charlatans and most organized religions follow Mammon.

[Warpy]

7. The other thread got locked by the word complainers

so I'll repost my reply.

9. What did anyone expect? After 40+ years of shipping good jobs away and starving people, by not raising the wages on the bad jobs they had to scramble for, people on the bottom have had enough. They're backing a guy they know will completely wreck the political establishment in Washington, or that's what they think. They don't think he gives a damn about them, nobody does and they're used to that.

They just want a rapid turnover in the thieves at the top. They will never vote for a Clinton. They will never vote for Ryan or any of the other establishment types. They're so angry they'd rather rip it all down and start over than deal with what they've got. Which is nothing.

Tea party types were the more educated, suburban white folks, but the anger was the same. Those white folks just didn't realize that Federal taxes were the least of their problem, that regressive taxes were what was killing them. People know they're getting screwed without getting kissed and anger is deepening and widening. Our plutocracy has no clue how dangerous this is.

(Thanks for reposting, BTW)

[Photographer]

8. Thank you.

[Democat]

15. Jobs were shipped overseas because of poor choices by Trump voters

These Trump supporters have been supporting Walmart and other similar companies for a long time. These Trump voters hate and want to destroy unions. They have elected politicians who support terrible policies in the middle of the country.

There is a lot of corruption and globalization, but these people who love Trump are the same ones that have been fighting to destroy labor unions for decades.

It's hard to defend them as justifiably angry when they have been working to tear down their own safety nets.

[True Dough]

9. Dragging their knuckles and breathing through their mouths

equals correlation 0.97

[Different Drummer]

10. True!

[lindysalsagal]

12. Real Title: "Shocker: Trump supporters really are white trailer park trash."

Ancestry as american is the one I don't get. They actually don't know who one parent is? Or they are not reporting? or they don't understand the term?

[SheriffBob]

14. i live in a trailer

and i hate trump.

[ileus]

17. AKA dummies that shouldn't be allowed to vote.