With Ever Trumpers, It's Not the Economy, Stupid - by Berry Craig LA Progressive

" The  2018  Miami Herald headline was a grabber : “No, it’s not the economy, stupid. Trump supporters fear a black and brown America.” Leonard Pitts said he penned his column “as a service for those progressive readers who are struggling with seeing no point in trying to reason with Trump voters. Scholars  have dug deep into the election results, conducted scientific studies and concluded that racial resentment was the main motivator for most Trump supporters. Click here, here and here.  Studies revealed that poor whites don’t make up the bulk of Trump’s base. Middle- and upper-class  conservative white evangelicals do. T.B Edsall wrote that “the surge of whites into the Republican Party has been led by whites with relatively high incomes — in the top two quintiles of the income distribution — but w/o college degrees, a constituency that is now decisively committed to the GOP"