White women without college degrees chose Trump
Trump actually won 62% of white non-college educated women to Clinton’s 34%. Clinton won white college educated women 51% to Trump’s 45%, according to those same polls.
My take on this is that to the reader (and the author) non-college educated = lower class and college educated = upper class, but we can’t admit that in the USA, right? We just say it another way.
Those stupid low class women flocked to Trump while the refined upper class women naturally selected Clinton.
Or was it more that poor women who have been shut out of the economy for generations have had enough of the same empty promises and the well to do women, having their material needs met, can aspire to more cerebral concerns?
I’ve heard some of my Democratic friends tell me that the answer to this is to provide more college for women. I say better answer is to respect all women and men, regardless of their academic standing, see what they view as important (which might not be a college degree), and serve them as well.
…but it is certainly true, and I think for obvious reasons, that there is a correlation between class and level of education. Count me as one of those who can’t fathom why any woman would vote for Trump, college-educated or not.
….the 45% of college women who ALSO voted for Trump? Women always do worse in a bad and decaying economy and are disportionately represented among the so-called discouraged workers who have been out of work so long they no longer register in unemployment stats. Some of these college women may even be graduates who have never been able to get a job at all.
Dare I say it? It’s the Economy, Stupid.
But then, I can’t explain how anyone, and especially women, for a Dangerous Unqualified MISOGYNISTIC Bigot. Clinton would have been better for them by every measure, and no, not just because she shares their anatomy. I am also someone who is a graduate (Bachelor AND Master) and never been able to get an appropriate job, but that’s no excuse for being stupid.