| pray4mojo said:
Trump isn't pandering to working people. He's pandering to (mostly) uneducated, gullible, bigioted, fearful white people who want to build walls, deport all the "brownies" and think the world is flat. Did you know that according to polls, 40% of them actually think black people are more "lazy" and that 59% of them think Obama isn't a US citizen? I'm not making this shit up. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-race-idUSKCN0ZE2SW What Trump getting this far tells me is that there's alot of ignorant people in this country... and, according to data, alot more racists than we would like to believe. |
I cite again fivethirtyeight.com:
"Jody: Well, that was the other part. Twenty-five percent of Clinton supporters said the same."
"Nate Silver: Beyond that, I think you get into false precision, though. A couple of years ago, my colleague Allison McCann and I looked at the general social survey which asks about racial attitudes in a lot of different ways, and of the white population, you can get anywhere from five percent to 50 percent, depending on how you ask the question about anti-black racism. And there’s a question about how they split between Clinton supporters and Trump supporters, but if someone submitted that in an article at FiveThirtyEight, we’d say “needs citation.”"
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/putting-hillarys-basket-of-deplorables-in-context/
And more detailed with data:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-of-trumps-supporters-really-are-deplorable/
