Election swings are usually pretty uniform. States tend to shift together from one presidential election year to the next. Most demographic groups do as well.
But there was one glaring exception this year: College-educated voters became a lot more Democratic and non-college educated voters became a lot more Republican. …
There are, of course, several plausible reasons for this growing education gap. No one factor explains everything.
That said, a major factor was racial attitudes. Here is the evidence. CONT.
Michael Tesler (UC Irvine), The Monkey Cage