again, Trump is only a viable candidate because of his overwhelming white support, up and down the income ladder and across generations.
white voters are the constant. if Trump lightly underperformed with white voters in, say, Florida, the map looks different.
But go off.
white voters are the constant. if Trump lightly underperformed with white voters in, say, Florida, the map looks different.
But go off.
In Florida, one candidate won SIX in 10 white voters in a state where EIGHT in 10 people identify as white (including a LARGE number of Hispanic people).
It has the effect of overstating Trump's appeal to people who are...not white.
It has the effect of overstating Trump's appeal to people who are...not white.
this was Ta-Nehisi in 2016. How different does any of this look *now*?
*talking about "Latino voters" has the effect of overstating Trump's appeal to people who are...not white.
to QT Robert again here, but...to the extent that younger people don't rock with Trump, it's not due to younger white folks' distaste for him — it's because the younger generational cohorts are much *browner.*
https://twitter.com/robertpjones/status/1323836729309175810
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