Chris Evans: The "progressive" left needs to stop pretending income equality will solve racism

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61. No, better off, less-educated white people voted for him, the "diploma divide."

"The relationship between education and support for Donald Trump is plain: Trump did worse -- and Clinton better -- among whites with college degrees or some postgraduate education than among whites who did not have college degrees. ... Because whites with more formal education have long had more positive views of racial and ethnic minorities, and because those views were themselves strongly related to how Americans voted in 2016, the education gap was largely a racial attitude gap. ... Trump voters who did not attend college were actually relatively affluent, and moreover, the educational divide among whites was present among voters at all income levels. ... In fact, one study of white voters without a college education or salaried job found that those who reported being in fair or poor financial shape were actually more likely to support Clinton, not Trump, compared to those who were in better financial shape. Ultimately, no other factor in these surveys explained the education gap as well as racial attitudes -- not partisanship, not ideology, not authoritarianism, not sexism, not income, not economic anxiety."

From Sides, Tesler and Vavreck's "Identity Crisis"