Live from the Rumpublicans' Self-Made Gehenna: : Americans Aren't Anxious About the Economy. So What Are They Anxious About?: "One possibility is angst over illegal immigration, but...
...illegal immigration has been negative over the past seven years.... Gallup polls show more support for legal immigration since 9/11 and less support for deporting undocumented immigrants. Maybe Iraq is to blame..... Or maybe the more general lack of victory over terrorism has kept everyone on edge.... Or there's my pet explanation: the economy might be doing OK, but Democrats are afraid to say so because it would make them seem satisfied with a good-but-not-great recovery that hasn't increased middle-class wages much.... If you have the conservative noise machine and both parties agreeing that the nation's economy sucks, then people are going to believe the nation's economy sucks—even if most of them are personally pretty satisfied....
Today I happened to run across a paper that measured each state by its level of racial animus. That got me curious: how would the scores compare with each state's popular vote for Donald Trump? Answer: pretty well! Massachusetts is sort of an odd outlier, but the rest of the states form a pretty decent regression. I guess now we know what all those Trump voters are pissed off about:
