… The polls offer a way of framing the election: as a referendum on how white men see their place in a changing country; and, one layer beneath, on whether they perceive themselves as being joined by women and minorities or rather as being replaced by them.
In those parts of the country where change has advanced the furthest, people speak often about “diversity” and “multiculturalism” and “inclusion,” and they think of themselves as speaking about a great joining: the formerly marginal coming up onstage with those who were once dominant.
Yet there is some evidence that a sizable number of white men see the push toward diversity, along with the larger changes it telegraphs, as less about joining and more about replacement, and a country that is less hospitable to them. CONT.
Anand Giridharadas, New York Times