Fear of diversity, not economic anxiety, caused Obama voters to switch to Trump

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The fear is that people who do not look like them are taking their jobs. Jesse Helms' "Hands" played on this. Trump spoke directly to this sort of fear.

     They wouldn't be any less afraid if the jobs were being outsourced to France. It is a matter of pure happenstance that the jobs are being outsourced to places like Mexico where the people "do not look like them".

I say bullsh**t to that. No one bats an eyelid for the scads of auto plant jobs that have been outsourced to Ontario. I haven't heard about outsourcing to Canada mentioned once during the campaign.

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The fear is that people who do not look like them are taking their jobs. Jesse Helms' "Hands" played on this. Trump spoke directly to this sort of fear.

     They wouldn't be any less afraid if the jobs were being outsourced to France. It is a matter of pure happenstance that the jobs are being outsourced to places like Mexico where the people "do not look like them".

I say bullsh**t to that. No one bats an eyelid for the scads of auto plant jobs that have been outsourced to Ontario. I haven't heard about outsourcing to Canada mentioned once during the campaign.

The Canada-US integrated auto manufacturing supply chain as we know it today dates back to the 60s... nobody who is working today was working age at the time auto jobs moved to Ontario, where the production costs have been higher than in the US since at least the 90s. Canadian production by US auto manufacturers is set at about 1:1 to sales, so while there may have been some degree of geographical reconfiguration of the supply chain, what you're describing cannot really be described as "outsourcing".

An integrated supply chain was exactly what is desired of out free trade with Mexico, but it continues to run into roadblocks.