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whatthehey

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5. A lot of it is always, but more now than usual, self-identity
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 01:39 PM
Oct 2016

Racism and misogyny are plenty common, but not so ubiquitous or overwhelming as to make 50% of whites (far higher for men) vote for somebody they otherwise wouldn't. A far bigger driver is simply team allegiance. Republicans are patriotic, religious and all-American with a side of manliness in the eyes of many people who follow politics only at a surface cultural level. To vote Dem is seen as counterculture, less patriotic, more secular and a bit effete. We're the ones who try to change that Norman Rockwell Pleasantville type America, and they resent that. Such people often don't care or think about policy, and their reaction to candidates is filtered through the lens of allegiance. When Napoleon launches a sneak attack he is a cunning hero to the French and a villainous cheat to the British. Just so Trump "tells it like it is" and "stands up to political correctness gone mad" to them and "foments racist hatred" and "insults women indiscriminately" to us.

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