Donald Trump’s success in the Republican presidential campaign has surprised most political observers. But this does not mean his success is inexplicable. We know, for example, that support for Trump is strongly related to concern about immigration as well as to racial prejudice and white ethnocentrism. Almost 20 percent of Trump supporters disagree with the Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in the United States.
Now, data from the recently released 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES) adds yet more evidence. These data show that ethnocentrism is strongly related to support for Trump — more so than for any other Republican candidate. Trump support stands apart in how much it derives from attitudes about non-white minority groups. CONT.
Kerem Ozan Kalkan (Eastern Kentucky U.), The Monkey Cage