Electing Trump didn’t prove America is “racist”; it proved that shouting “RACIST!” no longer works, by Jim Goad. Fewer whites voted for Trump than for Romney.
Much of the media blamed it all on white racism, but that’s the media’s job, isn’t it? Statistically, 58% of whites yanked the lever for Trump. This included 63% of white men and 53% of white women, with the Clinton’s campaign’s attempts at launching an anti-male gender war stumbling as hard as Hillary did outside her van this past September 11. …
And despite the media’s ceaseless attempts to portray all Trump voters as uneducated — I’m still waiting for any mainstream outlet to use the term “non-college-educated black voters” — he was favored by a majority of educated whites.
But it wasn’t strictly a “whitelash” … Trump performed more poorly among white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012. And more nonwhites voted for Trump than they did for Romney. Electing Trump didn’t prove America is “racist.” It proved that shouting “RACIST!” no longer works. …
Despite the media’s ceaseless efforts to make the election all about race, when I saw him speak in Atlanta this past January, he didn’t make a peep about race — it was almost entirely about outsourcing, deindustrialization, and appealing to a huge swath of the nation that feels absolutely alienated and despised by DC and global elites. …
It was mainly rural versus urban:
A fundamental but hugely unacknowledged divide in America is the intergalactically large chasm between urban and rural culture. The city slickers and the country bumpkins might as well live on different planets. Last Tuesday, it was the perennially scorned hicks, hillbillies, and rednecks in “flyover country” who handed Donald Trump the presidency.
“Trump beat Clinton by 26 percentage points among voters who live in non-metropolitan areas, while Clinton bested Trump by about 7 percentage points in urban areas,” according to Reuters. …
Rural whites have been the most openly despised and mocked racial, economic, and geographic group in America since at least the 1960s. …
But now the joke is on the media. A large segment of America grew tired and angry about being aggressively shat upon for generations not only by government policy, but by a media-academia complex that views them as subhuman and by presidential candidates who dismiss them as “bitter clingers” and “deplorables.”
The other large gap, also larger than the gender gap, was the marriage gap. Married people vote Republican in much larger numbers, which helps explain why the left has been at war with marriage for decades.
hat-tip Stephen Neil
