… A 2017 study by Johns Hopkins University researchers Stephen L. Morgan and Jiwon Lee, which was published in the Sociological Science journal, found that non-Hispanic white voters totaled 69.3 percent of the electorate in 2016. The percentage of that total who were working class was just 18.6 percent. Conversely, blacks and Hispanics together, voters who overwhelming and consistently support Democrats, accounted for 20 percent of all votes cast in 2016.
Furthermore, according to exit polls, the Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won the white vote in the whole history of those polls being conducted.
And yet, we are fated to an unending obsession about courting those voters, about their worries and anxieties, about their propensity to angrily storm off if they don’t feel properly exalted and centered. CONT.
Charles Blow, New York Times