What Trump Supporters really are.. [View all]

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The data reveals more specific correlations, using number one as the perfect match for Trump support. Here are a few of those correlations:

White with no high school diploma equals correlation 0.61
Percent reporting ancestry as “American” equals correlation 0.57
Percent living in a mobile home equals correlation 0.54
“Old economy” jobs including agriculture, construction, manufacturing equals correlation 0.5

While Trump also has support among the affluent and the well-educated, the data shows that support for him runs the strongest among the proportion of the white population that didn’t finish high school, working-age adults who neither have a job nor are looking for one, and people living in mobile homes. The article concludes:

“’It’s a nonurban, blue-collar and now apparently quite angry population,’ said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. ’They’re not people who have moved around a lot, and things have been changing away from them, but they live in areas that feel stagnant in a lot of ways.’”

With this, the importance of accessible education for everyone becomes very apparent.

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/03/14/the-geography-of-trumpism-where-do-they-come-from/ Please disregard the title.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/upshot/the-geography-of-trumpism.html