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How big a role did race and religion play? I'm genuinely curious because the mainstream media won't talk about it, perhaps out of a sense of political correctne
by analog31 2y ago
How big a role did race and religion play? I'm genuinely curious because the mainstream media won't talk about it, perhaps out of a sense of political correctness. But it seems odd that they're framing the election as a referendum on economics, when the Trump campaign didn't even float a coherent economic agenda.
As I mentioned in another thread, the Republicans switched from "the immigrants are stealing your jobs" to "the immigrants are stealing your cats."
- lolinder 2y agoIt played a role in giving people an outlet to attach their anger to, the same as it did in 1930s Germany. But the economics came first and are still dominant in the majority of Trump voters I speak with. The vocal minority pushing the racism and anti-LGBT stuff are not representative.
- Aloha 2y agoIt's like you and I are reading from the same book! - If I just go off what I see online, most of the loudest anti-trans voices, and most of the racists, I'm more or less convinced have never met or gotten to know any trans people or any black people. It's a certain amount of willful ignorance on their part.
- edflsafoiewq 2y agoIncome is one of the weakest predictors of which way you voted. Race and religion are far stronger.
- jpadkins 2y agoThat's incorrect. Gender was a larger predictor in the last election (and then married status, interestingly enough). Trump gained in both black and latino voter share. https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latinos-black-voters-0f3fbda3362f3dcfe41aa6b858f22d12 https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latin...
- edflsafoiewq 2y agoNo, it is correct. Here are CNN's exit polls: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0 https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-result... The largest split in any income group is 52-46, nearly even. The largest split by gender is only 55-43. By contrast, Blacks are 13-86. White Protestants are 72-26. White Jews are 20-79. White nones are 28-71.
- analog31 2y agoI don't think it's plausible, on the face of it, that the party would risk transparently directing the full force of its campaign message to an insignificant fringe. Maybe they know the composition of their voting base better than we, who are inclined to only see the best in people, do.
- Ray20 2y ago>when the Trump campaign didn't even float a coherent economic agenda With what their opponents had? They didn't even need one.