Did nonwhite rural voters in 2016 vote more like rural voters or nonwhite voters? County-level graphs tell the tale - Entrepreneur Generations

Washington Post graphic; click on the image to enlarge it.

In an interview about his new book The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America, which we reported on, author Robert Wuthnow commented that rural America is about 10 percent nonwhite, and that percentage is increasing as more Hispanics and immigrants settled in rural areas.

That led Philip Bump with The Washington Post to wonder whether nonwhite rural residents tended to vote Republican like most rural people or Democrat like most nonwhite people in the 2016 presidential election. His reasoning process, which he guides us through, is a fascinating feat of data-wrangling. Click here to read more.

The final result? Nonwhite rural voters were far more likely to vote Democrat than Republican, as shown by the chart on the right.

from The Rural Blog http://ift.tt/2IKVu3W Did nonwhite rural voters in 2016 vote more like rural voters or nonwhite voters? County-level graphs tell the tale - Entrepreneur Generations

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