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How Trump Took Middle America

Younge, Gary
http://www.theguardian.com/membership/2016/nov/16/how-trump-took-middletown-muncie-election

Publisher:  The Guardian
Date Written:  16/11/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

Examining the lives of Trump supporters in middle America and the conditions and perceptions that motivate their support.

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For the white working class, says Jamie Walsh, who voted for Trump, the benefits of being white aren't obvious. "People are afraid that they're stupid. This whole PC thing -- racism, sexism. All this stuff is being stupid. All these isms are ignorance. People don't feel racist, they don't feel sexist … They feel marginalised because of their ignorance. You don’t want to offend people."

It is in the precise place where race and class merge that a section of white America finds itself both bereft and beleaguered. "White privilege is like a blessing and a curse if you’re poor," Walsh says. "White privilege pisses poor white people off because they've never experienced it on a level that they understand. You hear 'privilege' and you think money and opportunity and they don't have it. There's protected women, minorities – they have advocates. But there's no advocates for poor people."
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