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In 2016, the Democracy Fund, a Washington, DC-based foundation, gathered
a group of nearly two dozen academics and polling practitioners with
diverse political points of view to take a deeper look at important
currents in the 2016 election. The ongoing project included a large
original survey with many questions about political beliefs, economic
and social concerns, as well as basic demographic information. Many
people in the sample were first interviewed in 2012, permitting a unique
kind of analysis of the 2016 vote. The first four papers from the
project, of which I am a part, have just been released. One paper, “The Five Types of Trump Voters,”
by the impressive young research fellow at the CATO Institute Dr. Emily
Ekins dispels the notion of Trump voters as a monolithic bloc. “Far
from there being only one type of Trump voter, there were five unique
clusters of them,” she says.
Ekins’s analysis identified Staunch Conservatives as
the largest cluster of Trump supporters at 31 percent. They are loyal
Republicans, solid fiscal conservatives, have traditional values, and
are politically aware. They worry about legal and illegal immigration.
They are a little older, more likely to be male than female, and have
higher socio-economic status than some of the other groups. They are the
group most likely to be NRA members.
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