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Title: White Residential Seclusion and Voting for Donald J. Trump; A Modern Day Implication of Segregationist Policies
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: Donald J. Trump’s extreme nationalist and anti-immigrant platform won him the presidency and the support of the majority of white Americans. To investigate a potential reason for the high levels of support by whites, this research calculated the white index of isolation to explore the relationship between white residential seclusion and supporting Trump in North Carolina. The results show a strong positive correlation between high levels of white residential isolation and high percentages of a community voting for Trump. Or contrarily, communities with greater racial integration voted for Hillary Clinton at higher rates. One potential reason for this finding is the contact hypothesis: in heterogeneous precincts, inter-racial contact led to greater understanding and white Americans rejecting Trump’s polarizing platform. In homogenous communities, whites lacked this cross-cultural communication and supported Donald Trump. Based on these conclusions, I claim that the election of Trump can be viewed as a modern day manifestation of the governmental policies of the 20th centuries that promoted the isolation of white communities from minorities
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Authors: Litwin, Tal
Publisher: Occidental College
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other
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