The demographic divergence that helps explain perceptions of the Capitol rioters

… It’s a tension we’ve seen over and over during the past five years, this idea that Trump’s base is both less educated and somehow less impoverished than America as a whole. Normally education and income move hand in hand, so how could those two descriptors (however loosely accurate they might be) overlap?

Polling in the wake of Trump’s election loss and the violence in D.C. helps shed some light on the question. …

Trump supporters are, in fact, a group that doesn’t fit neatly into the sorts of political categories that were used before 2015, leading to differing interpretations of who they were. Trump had good reason to love the poorly educated. They helped make him president. CONTINUED

Philip Bump, Washington Post


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