2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: As a black loyal Democrat, I say SCREW the white working class who insist on voting Republican [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Every Republican other than Goldwater did better with blacks than Romney and McCain did because they ran against Barack Obama, the first black president. So insisting that because Trump's number among blacks was slightly higher than Romney's somehow absolves his white voters of any questions about their motivations doesn't hold water.
Why do YOU think 53% of white women decided to vote for Trump when only 4% of black women did?
Apparently, you haven't been paying attention to the rampant voter suppression that kept the votes of millions of black people from being counted in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin and elsewhere. It made the difference in many of these races. But it didn't have the same impact on white voters, so it's not a big deal, nothing to see there, eh?