\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nFor example, Trump gained 7% among both Black men and women, and even gained support among Latinos. But what is perhaps most shocking and perplexing, is that even though Trump lost to Biden among white college-educated men, he gained eight percentage points among white college-educated women, to the point where he actually won that group.<\/p>\n
Let me say that again, because I think it bears repeating. After four years of living with a president, who many, if not most, regard as racist, misogynistic, incompetent, dishonest, narcissistic, corrupt, and with all manner of other seemingly disqualifying characteristics, most white college-educated women voted for Trump<\/strong>. That is stunning, especially when you consider that their white male counterparts did not. And it says a lot about how far the nation has to go in its healing, and how little we know about what is really happening in the country. Because there are clearly forces at play here, that no one really seems to understand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAnd if this election tells us one thing, it\u2019s that we\u2019d better find a way to start understanding those forces. If not, we might end up right back to where we were four years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nExcept, of course, that this time around Donald Trump will not be such a disruptive and divisive force\u2026 yeah right.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We saw a lot of celebrating on Saturday after the declaration of Biden\u2019s win. But as I watched those celebrations, it occurred to me that a strange kind of victory was being cheered. Because those celebrations seemed strangely incongruous, and in a couple of important ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[167,7],"tags":[63,57,28,61,58,62,52,59,27,54,60,56],"advanced\/featured_image_src":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fireworks-1953253_1280-1024x682.jpg","advanced\/author_data":{"display_name":"Bartholomew St. James","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/23dcce15dba99ba300b394d49623c938?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_link":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/author\/bart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227741,"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225546\/revisions\/227741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}