Racial Resentment
What percent of Trump voters surveyed were found to have a high level of racial resentment?
*You will find some of the questions that determine racial resentment scores below.
How accurate was your prediction?
How surprising is this information?
What is the big story this chart tells?
How do you explain this chart?
What is one consequence of this chart?
Overall, is this chart good news or bad news?
What was some of Trump's campaign rhetoric that would have appealed to voters with a high racial resentment?
Based on the fact that over 80% of Trump supporters have a high level of racial resentment, what policies do you imagine he will enact?
Above all, what do you think is the number one reason Donald Trump won the electoral vote?
How do you think you would personally score on a survey of racial resentment?
Explain why you think most whites have high racial resentment?
What questions do you have about this?
Learning Extension
Check out Daniel Byrd & Loren Collingwood's racial resentment survey and analysis.
Action Extension
Researchers asked a national sample of registered voters four "symbolic racism" *questions, culled from a list of six in the University of Michigan's Donald Kinder and University of Virginia's Lynn Sanders's book Divided By Color. Specifically, Morning Consult asked respondents if they agreed that:
Irish, Italian, Jewish, and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Black people should do the same without any special favors.
It’s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if black people would only try harder they could be just as well-off as whites.
Over the past few years, black people have gotten less than they deserve.
Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for black people to work their way out of the lower class.
