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   • Adam Burck

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   Yeah, "college educated" white voters tend to be more democratic. Because real prolonged exposure to people not like you, can reduce biases and preconceptions. Not always, but can.

   There's a sleight of hand that happens though, where folks extend this to think that because college grads earn more than non-college grads, that poor, uneducated white people are more racist than rich, educated white folks. This is demonstrably not true, and is a very unfair insult to poor white folk.

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     • Adam Burck

     @adamburck

     Business owners in the US are *much* richer than professional class Americans. And most US business owners are not college grads. This is true in tech companies as well as restaurants, pillow companies, real estate, general contractors, etc.

     The "economic anxiety lead to Trump" is a lie, and the data shows the opposite. The more racist a person, the more likely they were to vote for Trump. The richer a person, the more likely they were to vote for Trump. Jan 6 was mostly rich folk.

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