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Old 02-13-2016, 11:09 AM   #1
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A timely anecdote:

In my daughter's "share and tell" time in class, the girl right before her shared that no one should vote for Donald Trump. This caused my daughter to share that the other day, we drove by a homeless man with a sign reading, "Give me $1 or I'm voting for Trump." Everyone else in the class yelled, "NOooooo!"

So rest assured, he has absolutely none of the hippie-school-second-grader vote.


But back to the thread topic... what ethnicity are these "metropolitan whites," if not significantly Scots-Irish? Is the argument that they're all German/French/Italian?
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Old 02-13-2016, 11:27 AM   #2
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He says the Republicans supporting Trump come from lower socio-economic counties than Republicans supporting other candidates, and have a higher percentage of Scots-Irish voters. The Scots-Irish in urban areas have a different life experience, higher education and higher income, so lumping them all together as white doesn't explain the split. In fact white is meaningless as a demographic.
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