Dear Trump voters:

[AZProgressive]

28. I'm well aware of the Obama-Trump voters

A new study reveals the real reason Obama voters switched to Trump

Hint: It has to do with race.

(snip)

A new study shows that this response isn’t as powerful as it may seem. The study, from three political scientists from around the country, takes a statistical look at a large sample of Obama-Trump switchers. It finds that these voters tended to score highly on measures of racial hostility and xenophobia — and were not especially likely to be suffering economically.

“White voters with racially conservative or anti-immigrant attitudes switched votes to Trump at a higher rate than those with more liberal views on these issues,” the paper’s authors write. “We find little evidence that economic dislocation and marginality were significantly related to vote switching in 2016.”

This new paper fits with a sizeable slate of studies conducted over the past 18 months or so, most of which have come to the same conclusions: There is tremendous evidence that Trump voters were motivated by racial resentment (as well as hostile sexism), and very little evidence that economic stress had anything to do with it.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/16/17980820/trump-obama-2016-race-racism-class-economy-2018-midterm

I'm paywalled so I can't post any more but Obama-Trump voters were motivated by Xenophobia and hostile sexism especially when it comes to the 2016 election.

on edit: I added some paragraphs, I used Webpage archive.