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post-2016 election Democracy Fund study explains “send her back!” Trump rally /1

it identified Trump’s core base as “American Preservationists”, w/characteristics including:

—“strong sense of racial identity”; 67% called their race “extremely important”

cnbc.com/2019/07/18/gop…
—“nativist and ethnocultural conception of American identity”; 69% say to be truly American, very important to be born here; 67% say very important to have spent most of life here; 59% say very important to be Christian; 47% plurality say important to be of European descent /2
—“cooler feelings toward minorities”; 88% say blacks would be as well off as whites if only they’d try harder; 86% say discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as against blacks; 54% oppose affirmative action for women and minorities, while 18% favor /3
—“more likely to desire being around people like themselves, who have similar backgrounds and cultural experiences”; 70% say life in America is now worse for people like them than it was 50 years ago

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