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Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans

Smarsh, Sarah
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/liberal-media-bias-working-class-americans

Publisher:  The Guardian
Date Written:  13/10/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.

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Hard numbers complicate, if not roundly dismiss, the oft-regurgitated theory that income or education levels predict Trump support, or that working-class whites support him disproportionately. Last month, results of 87,000 interviews conducted by Gallup showed that those who liked Trump were under no more economic distress or immigration-related anxiety than those who opposed him.

According to the study, his supporters didn't have lower incomes or higher unemployment levels than other Americans. Income data misses a lot; those with healthy earnings might also have negative wealth or downward mobility. But respondents overall weren't clinging to jobs perceived to be endangered. "Surprisingly", a Gallup researcher wrote, "there appears to be no link whatsoever between exposure to trade competition and support for nationalist policies in America, as embodied by the Trump campaign."
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