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White-on-White Voting

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White-on-White Voting

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White-on-White Voting
The election of Donald Trump revealed that in some of the nation’s whitest municipalities
and counties — the communities arguably most insulated from urban crime, immigration and gangs — Trump did far better than Romney had done four years earlier.
Trump trailed Romney in the majority of municipalities, just as he did in the national vote: Trump won 45.93 percent of the total vote last year, 1.2
percentage points less than Romney’s 47.1 percent in 2012 (third party candidates in 2016 picked up slightly more of the vote than they did in 2012).
“To the extent Trump really resonated, it was in heavily-white areas — and
that includes exurbs at the urban fringe, rural areas, and many heavily white second-ring suburbs,” Stancil wrote in his email.
They are in the part of the nation’s heartland — Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio,
and Pennsylvania — where Trump earned enough Electoral College support to win the presidency even as he lost the popular vote.