Factually this election was about race and racism. That is how the numbers split out:
Older, less educated rural evangelical white voters are the core Trumpers. And their main issues involve race. Their number one issue is Immigration and second is Terrorism. Neither of which has a sizable impact on people in rural areas. Clinton’s more urban voters that live among immigrants communities much more often found those issues to be the least important.
58% of white voters voted for Trump.
88% of black voters voted for Clinton, only 8% voted for Trump
65% of Hispanic voters voted for Clinton, 29% voted for Trump
65% of Asian voters voted for Clinton, 29% voted for Trump
78% of LGBT voters voted for Clinton, 14% voted for Trump
Age mattered:
Trump got 53% of voters over 45 years old.
He got only got 37% of voters 18-29 and 42% of voters 30-44
Lack of education mattered too:
72% of white men without a college degree voted for Trump
62% of white women without a college degree voted for Trump
Evangelicals voted for Trump too, 81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump
The most important issue to Trump voters was immigration, 64%, second is Terrorism.
Rural voters voted for Trump, 62%. Urban voters only at 35%
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...on/exit-polls/It is truly interesting how the stats are spit out. I asked multiple people Tuesday night if they ever remember education of voters being such an up-front metric as it was on Tuesday. Age, race, and gender yes. Certainly education levels have been looked at as a minor stat, but this was the first time I’ve seen them used so blatantly to make it look like only people who looked like Joe Dirt were Trump voters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/white-voters-victory-donald-trump-exit-pollsDo you see what you are missing in all this? What is the education level of the Hispanics and Blacks who voted for Hillary? Try looking it up, you will be hard-pressed to find that information. Good luck extrapolating it from Wa-Po, CNN, NYT, or even The Guardian's data. We can generally assume many of the blacks and Hispanics supporting Hillary do not have college degrees either, but either no one appears to ask them because that would appear racist or it spoils the meme that only uneducated people vote for Trump.
Hispanics and blacks did what they always do- they supported the Democrat that is nothing new though they didn’t support Clinton to the extent they did Obama in 2012. This is nothing extraordinary.
“People without college degrees” can be either complete losers in life or they might be farmers, factory workers (we do know Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin all swung to the right this time- lots of skilled workers without college degrees who perhaps don’t like the Democrats handling of trade and the economy.
Stats are what you make of them. If you choose to use them to make the president-elect look like Stalin or Hitler that’s on you, but you only help feed the divide. You keep on focusing on differences when we all need to be looking at our similarities.