White voters threw a tantrum in 2016. Black voters are responding with pragmatism. zakcheneyrice writes
Black supporters of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Theories that seek to explain President Trump’s unlikely 2016 election range from the convincing to the less convincing to the almost comically euphemistic . But despite their differences, subscribers to each appear to have settled on a common theme: Trump voters backed their candidate because they felt their social standing had become precarious, and believed that he could somehow restore it.
Specifically, there are few measures by which black Americans aren’t traditionally among the most socially and financially precarious. From median income and homeownership to employment, education, and arrest and incarceration rates, most social indexes find black people at or near the bottom and whites at the top.
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