White millenials voted for Trump 48% to 42%
White women voted for Trump 53% to 43%
White college graduates voted for Trump 49% to 45%The problem isn’t babyboomers, men or ignorance. The problem is white supremacy.
You are conflating 2 things that aren’t necessarily true. Demographics are usually the first thing people use to compare peoples choices, when research has shown psychographics are a much better predictor of motivations.
I don’t think I am doing that. I was not talking about motivation at all. I do not think most white Trump voters are motivated by white supremacy to vote Trump. Of course some white people are but on a big scale that’s not how white supremacy works.
What I do think we can see from the fact that the majority of white people voted Trump while he did not get a majority in any other race group, is that a huge amount of white people did not consider Trump’s racism a big enough reason not to vote for him. Whatever motivated them to vote for Trump, they valued that motivation more than the people of color who would be hurt by his racism.
As a result of white supremacy, a LOT of white people who consider themselves ‘not racist’, ignored Trump’s racism and voted for him anyway.A lot of white people did not care about people of color enough to not vote for Trump. That’s white surpemacy’s biggest feature: apathy to the point of allowing people to die because you can’t be bothered to keep them safe.
