While the focus has been on all the whites without college degrees who voted for Trump... [View all]

...let's not forget that a majority - albeit, a smaller one - of whites with degrees also voted for him.

A lot of those were Republicans who swore up and down that they would never vote for Donald Trump. They even told pollsters as much. Yet when push came to shove...

Speaking for myself - and myself alone - as a white guy, in many ways I would rather face the openly ugly racist rants that seem to be more common (though I question HOW much more common) among whites who didn't go to college or didn't graduate from college than they are among whites with degrees. The alternative that, in my experience, is more popular among college-educated whites - of ALL political stripes - is the more insidious, indirect, intellectually rationalized racism that isn't as easily picked up upon (at least, for white guys like me - I'm willing to bet that it's far more easily detected by persons of color). This is the "I'm not a racist, but..." crowd. This the crowd who are eager to condemn more crass forms of racism - particularly if that racism comes from working class and poor white people - but are so fucking blind to their own race and class privilege that they don't even realize how bigoted, elitist, and yes, racist they are acting. And the worst thing is - these are the white people who have the most power, the most influence, the most ability to shape and control the cultural and the intellectual and political climate of the country.

/rant