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    TRT-XMichael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 11:04am

    Tropicana Jong-il secured 48 percent of the white vote in the 18-29 age group; Clinton netted 43 percent.

    I assume the remaining 9 percent thought “both candidates were terrible” and refused to vote for Clinton “just to stop Trump”.

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      kaitainjonesTRT-X
      3/27/17 11:30am

      It’s not a completely invalid position. The DNC clearly believed that it could continue to support fairly conservative candidates such as Clinton, knowing that the Republican opponent would always be so lousy that progressives would have no choice but to vote for their preferred candidate anyway. In other words, their bluff would never be called.

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      Manitos, The Tiny Hands of Trumpkaitainjones
      3/27/17 11:58am

      What do you mean “called their bluff”? Dem voters, especially minorities and women, clearly chose Clinton over Sanders. By a large margin. The choice was simple. Vote D and avoid exactly what we have now. White Millenials couldn’t deal with that fact and now deserve the haranguing from articles like this.

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    Hoyo AfrikaMichael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 10:00am

    All I know is that white women were haranguing black women and insisting that gender is far more important than race. When they were finally offered up a white woman behind whom all the girls could behind, 1 in every 2 Beckies, Connies, Rachels, whatever, decided patriarchal racism was their lane. Whiteness, my friends, is the lie.

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      TRT-XHoyo Afrika
      3/27/17 11:06am

      “I would love a woman to be President!” - As they pull the lever for Jill “Hey remember me I invited Julian Assange to my goddamn nominating convention” Stein.

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      Manitos, The Tiny Hands of TrumpTRT-X
      3/27/17 11:42am

      Jill “Don’t wanna upset the Anti-vaxxers” Stein

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    HodorableMichael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 9:45am

    Anecdotally speaking, this sounds accurate. As a white (relatively older) millennial, my “people’s” political leanings are almost completely dictated by geography. My city dwelling and college friends are overwhelmingly liberal.

    My friends back home in the town of 30,000 where I grew up in an area still somewhat influenced by farming? Very different story.

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      The real jtdHodorable
      3/27/17 10:52am

      Exactly this. My (educated white millennial) sisters and I (living in liberal southern cities) always vote progressive. My cousins, of whom there are many, and most of whom grew up in confederate flag-flying territories, always vote regressive (ironically/tragically, often against their own interests, as many of them and their children depend on government programs).

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      fablevisionHodorable
      3/27/17 12:03pm

      Correct. But Gawker and millennial-media would leave you to believe everyone 30 and under is a city dwelling liberal.

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    BiorrMichael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 11:58am

    I think the idea that somebody voted for Trump makes them themselves racist needs to stop. This is by and far more about Urban vs. Rural. Who are you going to vote for when your entire town is on the line due to the local mine closure? What about logging? Power plant? Factory? We are talking about multi generational jobs that are not only disappearing but are actively being demonized. These people feel like they are the little man and the ‘yuppies’ in the cities are making all of their decisions for them.

    Small towns are dying and the people in them can only see liberal policies as personal attacks to their way of life.

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      Raineyb1013Biorr
      3/27/17 1:50pm

      I think that making excuses for the racist Trump supporters needs to stop.

      Trump didn’t do dog whistles he roared his racism so loud even the deaf could hear it. If you saw that racism and voted for him anyway then you’re either racist yourself or you don’t consider it a dealbreaker despite what it would do to other people. You don’t get to pretend that your vote wasn’t one for racism when you’re called out on it.

      That shit needs to stop. If you voted for Trump you voted for a racist, orange, piece of shit. Own it.

      You think you can improve this country by tossing large swaths of people under the bus for being the wrong color? That’s why this country is so shitty to begin with because it was openly embracing that shitty ideology.

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      NickylechatRaineyb1013
      3/27/17 2:25pm

      Yup, yup, would totally go, pay, and watch that “shitstopping” movie.In a near future, people own their shit, so they can actually think, instead of making shitty excuses and all of a sudden a lot of shit get done.

      Anyway the election was a big fuck you to everyone else from white people.The message was clear enough,whatever it takes in order for us to be on top.

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    MeatpuddingMichael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 9:17am

    And with next year’s mid-terms, there’s going to be a new adult generation of voters who were born in 2000, and this generation (known as “Generation Z”) is the most socially conservative since the Silent Generation of World War II. 

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      HeyDorthVaderMeatpudding
      3/27/17 9:39am

      It seems like with Kids These Days (says the elderly 25 year old), they’re either REALLY conservative or REALLY liberal. Not a ton of middle ground, and the conservatives outbreed us.

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      Sundowner In ChiefMeatpudding
      3/27/17 11:02am

      That’s interesting and terrifying. Anecdotally it doesn’t match up at all with the Gen-Z’ers I’ve actually interacted with as a FIRST mentor. Even in this small WNY town (upstate NY is quite depressingly conservative outside of the cities) I’d say almost 90% of the kids I work with are liberals.

      Of course, it’s a biased sample anyways as most of the kids who sign up for FIRST Robotics are usually the brightest in their classes. The combined GPA of our FIRST team is even higher than our school’s Nation Honor Society. So that’s probably why I’ve been so fortunate so far.

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    falcon2001Michael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 10:58am

    Does considering Trump a legitimate president count as a racial bias? What a weird world we live in. I’d count him as legitimate even if I voted against him and continue to work against his policies.

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      ariesdragon123falcon2001
      3/27/17 11:18am

      I think it’s an interesting indicator because Trump did not win the popular vote, and did not win the vote of any racial minority group. And a lot of people feel that the electoral college should have stopped him, because of these things, and because stopping people who rise with the type of rhetoric that he did was the specific reason for its construction. In addition to that, there was a concentrated effort by the Republican party to ensure that minorities couldn’t turn up to vote. And that they turned out in lower numbers was a contributing factor to his win.

      All of those things conflate to make many minorities feel that rather than being a legitimate president, who has the will of the people in his pocket, he is someone a broken system kinda forced on them despite them doing their part.

      Meanwhile, a lot of conservative whites see nothing at all racist about the current system, and the way it influenced the election. And if they don’t see the way the current system is influencing the rise of white supremacy, it’s quite often willful ignorance borne about by unconscious racial bias.

      I do think though that the question is a flawed way to gauge those types of attitudes. Because plenty of people will feel that the system is racist, needs a change, and that Trump shouldn’t never have been allowed to be elected. While simultaneously believing that he played by the rules, and won the election by those rules. And those people aren’t necessarily as racist as the survey seems to want to define it.

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      falcon2001ariesdragon123
      3/27/17 11:32am

      Hey, that’s a really good response, thanks!

      I think it’s fair to say that I didn’t consider some of the points you brought up. I pretty much fall into that camp you mentioned - the system is flawed, but the system is law and it worked, so legitimacy is defined by that flawed system. We’ve had some pretty awful presidents before Trump, too.

      I’ll think on this a bit.

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    The White MillenialMichael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 10:53am

    Great generalization of white millennials... You are seriously getting paid to spew this crap? Oh, that’s right, us whities are just keeping the black folk down like usual. Your “woe is me” attitude is pathetic, regardless of your race.

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      ThirdAmendmentManThe White Millenial
      3/27/17 11:06am

      Awwww are your poor feefees hurt?

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      ShutUppaYooThe White Millenial
      3/27/17 12:12pm

      “Tropicana Jong-il secured 48 percent of the white vote in the 18-29 age group; Clinton netted 43 percent.”

      The whole purpose of article is to show that white millenials CAN’T be generalized as more progressive than older whites (as they usually are). Did you not read the article or do you not know what the word “generalize” means?

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    David E. Davis rides again!Michael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 2:09pm

    So, no shade for the Bernie supporters that refused to join up with Hills and either switched teams or took the cowards route and didn’t vote at all?

    Plenty O’Blame to go around.

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      Ry-bones, FiST pilotDavid E. Davis rides again!
      3/27/17 2:57pm

      Can’t shoot your wad all in one article, got to spread it around.

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      hocuspocusoctopusDavid E. Davis rides again!
      3/27/17 4:45pm

      Those people don’t deserve shade. They deserve a straight up read, some ether.

      Point one out to me, and I’ll go in on them. Fuck those people.

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    TrumpsTinyHandsMichael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 12:18pm

    So the polls that say that young people only would have elected Clinton because younger people are more racially diverse. This is good.

    It is not good that young white voters are in favor of racism and a regressive society, but if our country continues to dilute out the voices of bigotry then I am cool with that.

    P.S. There is already a “class warfare” battle going on. But the rich people are fighting right now. As soon as poor white people stop blaming poor minorities for their lousy wages, and start blaming the shithead who pays them dirt and the government that accepts poor wages as legal, then the fight becomes fair.

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      metonymoussumTrumpsTinyHands
      3/27/17 1:20pm

      I admire your optimism, but due to the natures of capital and law, the fight will not be fair even then.

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      NickylechatTrumpsTinyHands
      3/27/17 2:30pm

      It won’t happen , since the beginning white workers have been the complicit tools of the powerful, rich class in exchange of crumbs. When you see how they fought against Obama care, you cannot expect any meaningful reaction coming anywhere soon.

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    My arm! Let go of my arm with your ass!Michael Arceneaux
    3/27/17 10:52am

    This is why I hate it when people state they are waiting for the “racist boomers to die”. Mother fucker, look what’s coming next. I don’t trust anyone. Even my family has a slight racist, conservative bent that was not there ten years ago. I don’t get why.

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