(European Pressphoto Agency/ERIK S. LESSER)Media coverage of the 2016 election often emphasized Donald Trump’s appeal to the working class. When journalists wrote that Trump was appealing to working-class voters, they didn’t really know whether Trump voters were construction workers or CEOs. Moreover, according to what is arguably the next-best measure of class, household income, Trump supporters didn’t look overwhelmingly “working class” during the primaries. If being working class means being in the bottom half of the income distribution, the vast majority of Trump supporters during the primaries were not working class. Trump voters weren’t majority working class in the general election, either.

Source: Washington Post June 05, 2017 09:56 UTC