Not so poor: Trump voters are middle classHard numbers complicate, if not roundly dismiss, the oft-regurgitated theory that income or education levels predict Trump support, or that working-class whites support him disproportionately. These facts haven’t stopped pundits and journalists from pushing story after story about the white working class’s giddy embrace of a bloviating demagogue. “The other problem is when people want to blame poor whites for being the only racist in the room,” she told Gladstone. One thing the media misses is that a great portion of the white working class would align with any sense before victimhood. Barack Obama, a black man formed by the black experience, often cites his maternal lineage in the white working class.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2016 11:00 UTC