"Economic privation does not explain why so many working-class whites chose Mr Trump. The poorest picked Mrs Clinton. Indeed, analysis by the bipartisan Voter Studies Group find no unifying attitude among Trump voters on any economic issue. Much likelier indicators of support for him were cultural and not pretty. They included support for his promised Muslim ban and a belief that white Americans were discriminated against.
As Arlie Russell Hochschild, a sociologist, has written, such biases are fulled by anxiety about socioeconomic status in a changing America. Even as working-class whites find themselves working harder, for less reward, they look around and see women and non-whites on the rise-presumably at their expense, some conclude. This helps explain why there has been a steady flow of working-class whites from the Democrats, the champion of those rising groups, over the past two decades. Mr Trump's success was based on supercharging that pre-existing change, through his attacks on immigrants, Muslims and the trade deals that working-class Americans also decry."
The Economist, November 4, 2017
To me this means that support for Trump among non-college educated whites stems not so much from economic hardship, but from relative economic hardship.
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Vietnam history
-President Diem and his brother Nhu were oppressing Buddhists (70% of Vietnam was Buddhist)
-Huge protests erupted against them, in 1963 Buddhist monks began lighting themselves on fire in protest (first one in Saigon).
-Kennedy changed out ambassadors, nominating Henry Cabot Lodge.
-On the day in between when the old ambassador headed out and before Lodge arrived, Diem cut the phone lines for the American embassy and launched a massive crackdown on Buddhist community.
-Vietnamese generals reached out to Lodge to see if he would be amenable to a coup. Without the appropriate level of debate Kennedy approved U.S. support for coup (even though McNamara, CIA director, and others didn't support it).
-Coup was launched in first week of November 1963, and Diem and his brother Nhu were killed in the coup.
-Kennedy died a few weeks later.
-More coups occurred over the next several months, with new general taking charge.
-Through summer of 1965 there were 8 different governments.
-Johnson later replaced Cabot Lodge with GEN Maxwell Taylor as his ambassador.
in 1965 Johnson writes that our interests are:
-70% to avoid humiliation
-20% to contain China
-10% to help the Vietnamese
Battle of Ia Drang - 1965
-Huge protests erupted against them, in 1963 Buddhist monks began lighting themselves on fire in protest (first one in Saigon).
-Kennedy changed out ambassadors, nominating Henry Cabot Lodge.
-On the day in between when the old ambassador headed out and before Lodge arrived, Diem cut the phone lines for the American embassy and launched a massive crackdown on Buddhist community.
-Vietnamese generals reached out to Lodge to see if he would be amenable to a coup. Without the appropriate level of debate Kennedy approved U.S. support for coup (even though McNamara, CIA director, and others didn't support it).
-Coup was launched in first week of November 1963, and Diem and his brother Nhu were killed in the coup.
-Kennedy died a few weeks later.
-More coups occurred over the next several months, with new general taking charge.
-Through summer of 1965 there were 8 different governments.
-Johnson later replaced Cabot Lodge with GEN Maxwell Taylor as his ambassador.
in 1965 Johnson writes that our interests are:
-70% to avoid humiliation
-20% to contain China
-10% to help the Vietnamese
Battle of Ia Drang - 1965
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