There Was No White Working Class Surge for Trump

Monkey Cage: “To study voters, we define the working class as people without a college degree — which many journalists focus on — who are in the bottom half of the household income distribution — since many Americans who don’t finish college still go on to earn high salaries.”

“If we define the working class this way, there’s no real evidence the Trump era changed the demographic makeup of GOP voters.”

“The biggest single-year increase in the White working-class’s share of GOP voters came in 2012, when Mitt Romney was the party’s nominee. Since Romney, the share of White working-class people among GOP voters hasn’t budged.”