So a new study came out, and guess what, it wasn’t so much economic anxiety as…yep! …. immigration anxieties.
H/T digby
So they voted for the black guy, then got scared of what they had done and refused to give him a third term.
“He hates the same people I hate, give me the damn ballot”
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If it walks like a racist, talks like a racist and acts like a racist, it must be economic anxiety. And emails.
There’s a similar post up at LGM highlighting an article that looks into the history of the drop in WWC support for Dems. The greatest percentage drop apparently came in the decade 1960-1970.
Suffice it to say it is hard to square the evidence with a clear WWC desire for more progressive economic policies…
The Vietnam war years.