{"id":3970,"date":"2016-09-16T11:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2016-09-16T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:03:41","slug":"graph-week-trumpism-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/09\/16\/graph-week-trumpism-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph of the Week \u2014 Trumpism and Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of my friends and online correspondents were a bit put out with me for using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewire.com\/politics\/2011\/04\/emerging-consensus-birther-movement-was-always-about-race\/37134\/\">birtherism as a proxy for racism<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/09\/12\/big-basket-deplorables\/\">previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of them helpfully suggested that a better metric would be whether white people prefer to self-segregate into majority white neighborhoods. By a happy coincidence, this metric has already been put in the field during a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-race-idUSKCN0ZE2SW\">Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a>, conducted between March and June of 2016. Among many other findings, they discovered major differences between Clinton and Trump voters on the question of whether they prefer to live in a diverse community:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked about where they wanted to live, 36 percent of Trump supporters said, &#8220;I prefer to live in a community with people who come from diverse cultures,&#8221; compared with 46 percent of Cruz supporters, 55 percent of Kasich supporters and 70 percent of Clinton supporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is what that looks like in chart form:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/09\/diversity-vs-pointyhats.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3971\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/09\/diversity-vs-pointyhats.png\" alt=\"diversity-vs-pointyhats\" width=\"510\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/09\/diversity-vs-pointyhats.png 510w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/09\/diversity-vs-pointyhats-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multicultural doesn&#8217;t map perfectly onto multiracial, though the terms are often used interchangeably. At any rate, it looks like I may have slightly underestimated the extent to which Trump voters are motivated by fear of racial and cultural diversity. My apologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of my friends and online correspondents were a bit put out with me for using birtherism as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}