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[b]Everything We Heard About the Trump Voter is Wrong[/b]
There is this narrative that the media spreads that Trump won because he excited the white working class and they swarmed to vote for him. Well according to several election studies that just not true.
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Trump’s voters weren’t overwhelmingly poor. In the general election, like the primary, [b]about two thirds of Trump supporters came from the better-off half of the economy….[/b]
According to the election study by CNBC, [b]white non-Hispanic voters without college degrees making below the median household income made up only 25 percent of Trump voters.[/b] That’s a far cry from the working-class-fueled victory many journalists have imagined.
Add in [b]Nate Silver’s report[/b] during the primary showing [b]Trump voters earned an average $72,000 household income —[/b] far from rich but it’s also quite far from struggling to earn a living.
All of this chips away at the myth that a tidal wave of non-college, white working class/blue collar workers, who can’t make ends meet, carried trump to his slim electoral victory.
There is this narrative that the media spreads that Trump won because he excited the white working class and they swarmed to vote for him. Well according to several election studies that just not true.
Items:
Trump’s voters weren’t overwhelmingly poor. In the general election, like the primary, [b]about two thirds of Trump supporters came from the better-off half of the economy….[/b]
According to the election study by CNBC, [b]white non-Hispanic voters without college degrees making below the median household income made up only 25 percent of Trump voters.[/b] That’s a far cry from the working-class-fueled victory many journalists have imagined.
Add in [b]Nate Silver’s report[/b] during the primary showing [b]Trump voters earned an average $72,000 household income —[/b] far from rich but it’s also quite far from struggling to earn a living.
All of this chips away at the myth that a tidal wave of non-college, white working class/blue collar workers, who can’t make ends meet, carried trump to his slim electoral victory.
