"correlations are shown in red.
Variable | Correlation | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
White, no high school diploma
|
0.61 | ||||
“Americans”
Percent reporting ancestry as “American” on the census
|
0.57 | ||||
Mobile homes
Percent living in a mobile home
|
0.54 | ||||
“Old economy” jobs
Includes agriculture, construction, manufacturing, trade
|
0.50 | ||||
History of voting for segregationists
Support for George Wallace (1968)
|
0.47 | ||||
Labor participation rate
|
–0.43 | ||||
Born in United States
|
0.43 | ||||
Evangelical Christians
|
0.42 | ||||
History of voting for liberal Republicans
Support for John B. Anderson (1980)
|
–0.42 | ||||
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
Whites with European non-Catholic ancestry
|
–0.42" |
If it's in the Times, it must be right, but I absolutely cannot believe the negative correlation between WASPS and Trump support, and I'm writing as a WASP myself. I suppose it's possible because I no longer understand statistics, but I still think it unlikely.
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