danimagoo:
The article doesn’t say a majority of the working class voted for Trump. It says a majority of working class WHITES voted for Trump. That’s a demographic that wasn’t specifically covered in that exit polling you posted (by the way, what makes us think the exit polling was any more accurate than the pre-election polling?) but the closest thing to it is non college educated whites, 67% of whom voted for Trump.
As far as I can tell, no one has released race-by-income crosstabs yet. We won’t know for sure what the white working class numbers are until they do.
However:
(data from 2016 United States presidential election - Wikipedia )
Look at the issue numbers; people who cared about the economy voted Clinton. Trump got the xenophobe vote; folks freaking out about immigration and terrorism. Some of whom, yes, are working class. But not most of them.
See also:
http://forums.alternet.org/election-2016/yep-race-really-did-trump-economics-data-dive-his-supporters-reveals-deep-racial
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