The graph speaks for itself.
Hillary won the group that made less than $50,000 a year. Trump won those who made more than that.
This isn’t surprising, being that she constantly addressed the concerns of the poor and working class:
...you cannot say she didn’t talk about jobs, workers, and the economy. She talked about them all the time, more than anything else.
So who did Hillary lose, besides the rich? Bigots. As part of the worldwide rise in xenophobla.
That is that.
UPDATE: Unlike some diarists, I try to back up up my claims with links and data — such as the ones already cited. Here are a few more:
- Taking Trump voters seriously means listening to what they’re actually saying (instead of indulging in virtue signalling about what you want to believe they’re saying):
The press has gotten extremely comfortable with describing a Trump electorate that simply doesn’t exist. Cottle describes his supporters as “white voters living on the edges of the economy.” This is, in nearly every particular, wrong.
There is absolutely no evidence that Trump’s supporters, either in the primary or the general election, are disproportionately poor or working class. Exit polling from the primaries found that Trump voters made about as much as Ted Cruz voters, and significantly more than supporters of either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Trump voters, FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silverfound, had a median household income of $72,000, a fair bit higher than the $62,000 median household income for non-Hispanic whites in America.
A major study from Gallup's Jonathan Rothwell confirmed this. Trump support was correlated with higher, not lower, income, both among the population as a whole and among white people. Trump supporters were less likely to be unemployed or to have dropped out of the labor force. Areas with more manufacturing, or higher exposure to imports from China, were less likely to think favorably of Trump.
- These two charts explain how racism fueled Trump’s victory:
As UC Irvine political science professor Michael Tesler explains on the Monkey Cage blog, actual economic difficulty doesn’t seem to increase racial resentment. “Multiple studies, using several different surveys, have shown that overall levels of racial resentment were virtually unchanged by the economic crash of 2008,” Tesler writes. “Some data even suggests that racial prejudice slightly declined during the height of economic collapse in the fall of 2008.”
Tesler’s conclusion? Racial resentment triggered by the election of a black man, is driving economic anxiety. “[T]he national economy’s association with Obama has made racial resentment a stronger determinant of gloomy economic perceptions than it was before his presidency.” In other words, concern about the economy has become, for some, an outlet for anxieties about the country being led by a black man — and that’s what Kaufmann’s survey could well have been picking up.
In Kaufmann’s whole post, which I encourage you to read, he compares his survey of Trump supporters with a similar survey of Brexit supporters. The findings are remarkably similar — anxieties over a changing society were the key cause of hardcore Brexit support.