In their article "Is America More Divided by Race or Class?", Sean McElwee, Jesse Rhodes, and Brian Schaffner discuss whether the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States was influence more by race or class. Specifically, they use research to dissect how race and class influence political affiliation. Donald Trump being elected was influenced by the intersection of class and race because when people began to look into the demographics that voted for him they found that working class whites propelled him in polls which made people question whether his victory was a result of the economic condition in the United States. Others argued that his victory was solely based on his ignorant comments about race, but the fault
