In fact, a deep dive into the poll data showed that Trump’s voters were better off than the average American.40 The voters with the lowest incomes—overwhelmingly minorities—continued to vote Democratic. But a detailed accounting of the electoral statistics did show a significant shift to the Republicans among white male voters with less than a college education. It was less immediate misery than anxiety about the future that drove the Trump vote, fears that in the white population were associated with hostility to Latinos and black Americans, and among men with hostility to upwardly mobile
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