Opinion: Democrats should stop chasing Trump’s base. They have their own white working-class voters.
Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13, 2018, special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District celebrates with his supporters at his election night party in Canonsburg, Pa. By David Byler David Byler Data analyst and political columnist focusing on elections, polling, demographics and statistics Email Bio Follow Data analyst and political columnist April 3 at 3:29 PM Doing political analysis can feel like listing off truisms.
Make no mistake — Trump did win bigly with non-college-educated white voters. But these voters make up a huge percentage of the overall electorate, and they remain a big chunk of the modern Democratic Party as well.
In fact, Pew recently found that 33 percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters were non-college educated white voters, a figure that eclipses the percentage of Democrats who are college-educated white voters , black or Hispanic . According to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, an academic survey of more than 50,000 Americans, about 1 in 5 Clinton-voting blue-collar whites were born after 1985, compared to only 13 percent for Trump, who tended to do better with older voters. They also differ on religion — almost half of white working-class Republicans are evangelical Christians, and only 1 in 6 white working-class Democrats are.
And the groups are polarized on racial issues. About 3 in 4 Clinton-voting blue-collar whites agreed that “white people in the U.S. have certain advantages because of the color of their skin.” Six in 10 Trump supporters from this same demographic disagreed.
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