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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
2/3 of Trump voters earn < $100k. This means 2/3 of Trump voters are unquestionably not affluent.
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Ty said the poorest did not vote for Trump. This is true.
You responded with, "not all Trump voters are affluent" (paraphrase). This is also true and undisputed.
The dispute was over your sloppy characterization of who you think the typical Trump voter is based on an inaccurate understanding of the statistics.
Now you've found another statistic that you don't understand, and have used it to make a categorial assertion. Here's my response: I don't know what "affluent" means in the abstract, but $100k is roughly twice national median income, and fully a third of Trump's support came from people making more than that. Which sounds actually like a lot.
But maybe it's not a lot. We'd need to know something about what percentage of Americans earn more than that. Here's something called bankrate.com (almost three years ago) saying that roughly 20% of households earn more than $100k:
https://www.bankrate.com/finance/per...anymore-1.aspx
This from the WSL says $100k is 8th percentile (this is individual, not family):
http://graphics.wsj.com/what-percent/
This, from Bloomberg, has an interesting title.
If those numbers are about right (feel free to spend more than 20 seconds Googling), then Trump got disproportionate support from people earning more than $100k.
