As often happens with things that become popularly unpopular, articles looking at the voting preferences of white Trump voters in the Midwest are now dismissed as necessarily useless and repetitive. (Philip Bump/The Washington Post)In other words, it’s not really that Trump swayed white working-class voters to abandon the Democrats. As a general rule, there are far more white working-class residents in most counties than black residents. In Ohio, the average county has about 18 times as many white working-class residents as black residents. How critical are those white working-class voters to Trump’s hopes of winning a second term?

Source: Washington Post May 20, 2019 19:42 UTC