Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bizarre analysis, although this is not the Politics thread. The same people who voted for Obama in the previous two elections are suddenly racist? Or they were tired of being called racist if they disagreed with an Obama policy. Yup, I agree with PP that name-calling won't get you "the change you seek" Neither will blasting people who are concerned about the impact on their child's education and tax bill of an annual influx of several thousand high poverty, aliterate, non-English speaking kids who require wrap-around services in addition to education.
Your fantastic analysis says that the Trump voters are all former Obama voters? There is no other source for Trump voters? Is this how you prove that Trump voters are not racists?
Again, not the Politics thread, but the winning margin in several states was a cross-over demographic...
"the ANES data suggest that about 8.4 million 2012 Obama voters backed Trump in 2016 and 2.5 million Romney voters supported Clinton.[1]"
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/just-how-many-obama-2012-trump-2016-voters-were-there/
Then there were the 8% of African Americans (probably some of the above number); 29% of Hispanics; and 27% of Asians who voted for Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/heres-what-happened-with-the-latino-vote
https://nextshark.com/aaldef-exit-poll-asian-americans-voted-for-clinton/
Add to that millions of other people who cared about the pro-life movement, Supreme Court appointments, the economy, the dishonesty of the Clinton's, etc. and I am sure that the vast majority of Trump voters are not racists. Were there some? Probably. Bet there were some who voted for Obama also...
Bring it back to a discussion of education. Again, people can be concerned about the impact of immigration or poverty on their school system without having animus toward people of a given race or ethnicity.