Also remember, the vote isn't nearly as racialized as you might think. ~4 out of 10 whites went to Clinton, ~3 out of 10 Hispanics to Trump.
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Trump probably did as well or better with Latino voters than Romney did:https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-probably-did-better-with-latino-voters-than-romney-did/ …
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Meanwhile, Obama won the white vote in many states in 2012 - including Iowa, which now is a Trump bastion.pic.twitter.com/5FY7Yudayh
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Here's 2008. Obama won the white vote in Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin...pic.twitter.com/dflpSaocco
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The common narrative you hear today is that American voting is totally racialized - whites vs. POC. If that were true, I'd be very scared.
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The narrative of racialized voting tells Republicans that their only hope for the future is to deport or disenfranchise millions of POC.
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The narrative isn't completely false - the GOP gets almost no black votes, for example - but it isn't completely true either.
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The narrative of racialized voting, combined with rough demographic parity between whites and POC, is driving America insane.
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Part of the process of Americans learning to live together in harmony is the realization that voting isn't only driven by race. (end)
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I think has to do in large part with the hypervisibility of black folks, who are of course the most polarized group in terms of party.
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But you know, we also have one party that is generally welcoming to diversity and one party that is... not.
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Yup. If the GOP managed to change that, American politics would be much different. In the long term, probably better...
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In the short run, could be worse, if a slight reduction in GOP racism won over just enough POC to enable the remaining racists...
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