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Originally Posted by GGG
How does that contradict anything I said.
That tells you that uneducated whites voted for Trump at higher rates than previously. I contend that the reason behind that isn't racism, it's that poorer uneducated whites (and uneducated people in general)have born the greater share of the economic affects of trade and automation and Hillary Clinton did not campaign to them.
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I think the term uneducated whites (or uneducated in general) has a different measurement now. Like the goalposts have been moved. If you were Joe white guy born in 1960 in a small factory town, you got a high school diploma and worked in the factory. Probably the same factory your father and his father worked in. So why would you (in 1978) have gotten a college degree when one was not necessary? You were educated enough to get a job in the town and the people who could not complete high school were the uneducated ones.
Fast forward 40 years and now your factory job is gone and you are suddenly in the uneducated category and deemed (by some) suddenly too stupid to understand the issues and too stupid to vote. That would probably piss you off.