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College-educated Americans are much more likely to be Democrats than Republicans — and to an increasing extent.

Some of you righties can continue to disparage the education you were incapable of attaining, but you can't conceal how that 'non-attainment' fuels your resentments, prejudices, anger and faux grievances displayed in your posts and, undoubtedly, in your lives as well.

Blame whomever you like, or circumstances or bad luck. But the truth of the matter is that it's all on you.

Six in 10 Republicans are whites without a college degree; only a third of Democrats are. A third of Republicans are white evangelical Christians; a third of Democrats are religiously unaffiliated.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/...2da1544727

There’s an existing question of the extent to which the increasing racial divide between the parties overlaps with increasing partisan animosity. Trump’s election was clearly dependent to a large extent on issues that intersected with race.

(In nearly every state, voters most worried about the economy preferred Hillary Clinton in 2016 while those most worried about immigration or terrorism backed Trump.)

The Republican candidate was successful after stoking racial fears; even before the election, most Americans thought Trump’s rhetoric appealed to bigotry.

The PRRI data suggests that this is not simply a function of older white Americans worried about the shifting demographics of the United States. The Pew data suggests that younger white men are more likely to support Trump’s party than any other part of their generation.

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