White On White Voting Summary

The article, “White-on-White Voting” by Thomas Edsall, discusses the idea of large majority white cities and towns being the reason that Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Trump won in the areas that are some of the whitest in the nation, many of whom did not vote as strongly for McCain or Romney in the previous two elections as they did for Trump. These, almost 100 percent white, suburbs were all so extremely pro-Trump because they felt they had a reason to worry about their neighborhoods becoming more and more integrated and Trump will be the one to help prevent such events from occurring. These white suburb natives feel they have something to fear like they never had before because most have started to see a slight influx in the amount of minority land owners in their towns and they uncertain of how this will affect them and their neighborhoods. Trump has spoken openly about his negative beliefs towards immigrants. He feels they are taking away American …show more content…
Although this is considered the old form of racism, it is likely closer to how the people in these predominately white suburbia’s think than to the new form of racism. The new racism in America’s society is characterized by using culture to explain differences between races (Conely, 2017). The people in these suburban towns are not really threatened by the cultures of other races (at least not this example), rather, they are threatened by the idea of giving minorities too much power. Likewise, Trump’s racism is definitely not subtle or more gentle, it is very overt and blatant, which are characteristics of old racism. This is important because these overt actions of racism are much more likely to create a divide between whites and nonwhites and will likely result in a bigger push back from nonwhites against Trump and his