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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by vulcan01 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:33PM (#25662834)
I'll posit an additional factor: people who are disenfranchised and desperate are more likely to believe conspiracy theories and act on them. Andrew Yang talked about this a lot during + after his campaign, and also this paper:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3791630 (sorry to those who don't have jstor... I'll try to find stuff)

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by IfOnlyYouKnew on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:14PM (#25665866)
Yeah, that’s a myth. Trump voters are more affluent than Democrats.

See all those confederate flags today? The gallows? The Auschwitz shirts? When they tell you they are motivated by racism, believe them!

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by vulcan01 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:40PM (#25666129)
That still is compatible with what I said. There is never just one reason to any major social thing.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by mNovak on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:11AM (#25667505)
I don't think that's true. Trump's base is rural and suburban, white, non-college educated [1]. While income isn't listed here, that does not align with typical wealth distributions.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examinati...

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