Why are educated voters less likely to support Trump than non-educated?

[darklordoftech]

1. Xenophobia doesn't tend to resonate with educated people.
2. Protective tariffs were discredited long ago, and educated voters know that.
3. "Make America Great Again" doesn't resonate with educated people.

[darklordoftech]

1. Xenophobia doesn't tend to resonate with educated people.

In my honest experience, educated people are usually just smart enough to keep their own personal biases and prejudices to themselves. Upscale college educated places can have nasty histories of racism. My hometown has that kind of ugly past.

I suppose a college degree and more education can make people slightly less racist and biased, but it's overstated.

What I meant is that doctors and lawyers are less likely to be worried about Mexicans taking their jobs than McDonalds workers are.

[darklordoftech]

Much larger swathes of the educated have economic incentives aligned with larger government (e.g. workers in not for profits, education and healthcare) compared to the past. Meanwhile many less educated workers have had their incentives line up with the economic right in ways they wouldn't have in the 1950's (e.g. workers in mining, oil and gas etc). This has diluted the economic left (since fairly well off, educated folks aren't going to vote for radical change even if they aren't conservative), and forced the right to "downscale" their coalition.

What do you by "downscale"?

Anyway, Democrats tend to appeal to people with a "nerd" mentality by focusing on statistics and education while Republicans tend to appeal to people with a "jock" mentality. Trump went off the deep end with the "jock" mentality.

[darklordoftech]

I thought that education was mandatory in the US. Presumably there aren't many voters who have no schooling...

(Though the idea that formal education is synonymous with education in and of itself is not at all reflective of a biased, prejudiced, and dare I say, uneducated mind, obviously.)

Usually, when people say that someone is "uneducated", they mean someone who goes to school just so that they can get a job and not to expand their knowledge and when people say that someone is "educated" they mean someone who reads a lot of books, does a lot research, engages in scientific, political, and economic discussion, etc.