Protestors at the April 6 anti-xenophobia demonstration here in Aberdeen received far more positive reactions from passersby than negative. Among the scarce explicit rejections of their loving, inclusive messages were a scattering of yahoos who felt the need to shout the name of Donald Trump.
It seems logical to conclude that responding negatively to a demonstration of racial tolerance by shouting “Trump Train!” signals an overlap between racism and support for Trump.
But rather than trusting our anecdotal evidence from Aberdeen, why not consider Ohio State University poli-sci prof Thomas Wood’s analysis of the 2016 American National Election Study that finds racism unusually strong among Trump voters:
Since 1988, we’ve never seen such a clear correspondence between vote choice and racial perceptions. The biggest movement was among those who voted for the Democrat, who were far less likely to agree with attitudes coded as more racially biased.
Finally, the statistical tool of regression can tease apart which had more influence on the 2016 vote: authoritarianism or symbolic racism, after controlling for education, race, ideology, and age. Moving from the 50th to the 75th percentile in the authoritarian scale made someone about 3 percent more likely to vote for Trump. The same jump on the SRS scale made someone 20 percent more likely to vote for Trump.
Racial attitudes made a bigger difference in electing Trump than authoritarianism [Thomas Wood, “Racism Motivated Trump Voters More than Authoritarianism or Income Inequality,” Washington Post, 2017.04.17].
Bernie Sanders, are you sure you want to keep arguing that Trump voters aren’t deplorable? Trump is certainly deplorable, and the above data indicate his deplorable racism resonates with far too many Americans.
Please stop with the plural data.
That’s almost as bad as omitting the Oxford comma.
Almost all of the EARLY Trump supporters I knew had made racist comments at various times prior to Trump entering the race. It would be interesting to attempt to tease out the relationship between racist attitudes and the length of time voters had supported Trump.
Tyler, are data not multiple items? Do data not consist of two, three, four, or more pieces of information, all of which show, suggest, or refute various claims?
Data is information, or a set of those pieces of information. Or a Chief Operations Officer. Using it as a plural is an abhorrent practice. But I do appreciate the commas. (And since this is the internet, I will clarify that I am not being entirely serious, but I do find it extremely jarring. Subtlety, I hardly knew ye.)
I’m not so worried about Russia hacking computers as I am about how Trumptards got their brains hacked by Trump-Putin – making them believe in unsubstantial BS.
As long as I’ve been alive, Republican voters have struggled with their individual racist tendencies and lean towards beating up the poor for all the jobs we’ve lost due to automation and outsourcing.
“I just want to bathe in white privilege” – friendly Trump voter
Duh. They needed a study for this?! At least it statistically legitimizes common sense and observations.
Yes, 4 poorly worded questions asked of maybe 800 white people of the entire US population means Trump supporters are deplorable racists.
@Joe Nelson if they actually only had 800 white people as their sample, this study would have been rejected. Out of many correlations, they found a correlation between people who voted for Trump and also holding racist attitudes.
No, Joe, it means that a statistically significantly larger proportion of Trump supporters were motivated by racial bias than by other factors.
South Dakota conservatives can’t even see the relationship between feeding the poor and agriculture – because so many poor folks are racial minorities, it’s really confusing to South Dakotans as to whether or not they deserve basic nutrition. So, we’d rather have no farm bill at all than a farm bill with food stamps included in it.
GOP brain hacked conservatives are the phoniest Christians in the entire world.
deplorable birther trump. “won” at all costs.
Russia Today’s most popular Clinton video – “How 100% of the 2015 Clintons’ ‘charity’ went to … themselves” – accumulated 9 millions views on social media, according to the January report. [bit.ly/2os8wIt]
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-election-exclusive-idUSKBN17L2N3
dossier corroborated:)