Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order

Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by emcq on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:45AM (#13507268)

We should be careful about reading too much into this election. There are many well off republicans.

Based on the statistics I've seen, Trump had _fewer_ low income voters than Hillary. In addition Trump has similar percentages of male and white votes to GW Bush Senior [0].

While the disenfranchised poor Trump voter paints a pretty narrative, it leaves out a large volume of voters who turned out that dont fit that mold.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/e...

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Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by jonathankoren on Saturday January 28, 2017 @01:36PM (#13507924)

This. When people say "working class voter" or "working poor voter", the inevitably implicity define it as a white voter. When you examine an ethnic breakdown of these voters, it becomes evident that this isn't an economic group but rather a racial-economic group. Poor blacks didn't vote for Trump any more than they did for Romney[0]

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trump...

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Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by asveikau on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:35AM (#13514527)

I think even that is more complicated than a lot of people are saying. There used to be a solid bloc of white working class northerners who were solid democrats in places like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Trump was able to flip those states. I personally wonder how long that will hold before they flip back, or if it will be more permanent.

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