Why did Trump win? More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.

Why did Trump win — and Clinton lose — the 2016 U.S. presidential election? That’s been debated widely, to understate the case. Nominees include each campaign’s ground game, messaging, FBI Director James B. Comey’s last-minute letter to Congress, and defections from the “Obama coalition.”

Here, we offer new data to show that shifts in which racial groups went to the polls may have made the difference. CONT.

Bernard L. Fraga, Sean McElwee, Jesse Rhodes & Brian Schaffner, Monkey Cage

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