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Originally Posted by finnbow
If you want to know why white grievance (a burning anger about the loss of status and influence of “people like them”) and know-nothingism play such an enormous part in today’s Republican Party, look for the answer in these numbers. The views of the shrinking white evangelical population now dominate the GOP. Other polling shows that the group dismisses the extent of racism directed at minorities, immigrants, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, while exaggerating the extent of discrimination against whites. It’s this group that was motivated in the 2016 election not by economics but by cultural and racial grievance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...f-trumps-base/
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A futile argument: Trying to chop economics entirely from race.