Reuters: Trump supporters most racist, Sanders supporters least

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Belatedly, what Sanders’ supporters say about race
Chris Kahn
Reuters

The poll, which ran over three months and included interviews with more than 16,000 people, found that Donald Trump supporters were more likely to describe blacks negatively, relative to whites, when compared with people who backed fellow Republicans Ted Cruz and John Kasich or Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

The press likes to run stories about Sanders supports supposedly backing Trump (even, sadly, the Daily Show, which used to be all about calling out the media), but this shows why that's nonsense.

Sanders and Trump may have some policy positions that appear similar, but there's a vast ideological divide between progressives and nativists. Sanders supporters may vote Green or stay home, but they're not going to vote for Trump, even if it makes for good clickbait.

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1. "We mostly excluded the Sanders data for space reasons. We really should have kept it in."

It’s true that Trump also has enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination, but we included the Cruz and Kasich supporters because they showed that those racial attitudes among Trump supporters were significantly more negative than those among other Republicans. (Almost 50 percent of Trump supporters, for example, viewed blacks as more “violent” than whites. About 31 percent of Kasich and Clinton supporters said the same. )

The difference was slight between Clinton and Sanders, but it also was sometimes between Cruz and Trump. We mostly excluded the Sanders data for space reasons. We really should have kept it in.

Below, you’ll find an updated graphic that shows how Sanders supporters compare with the other candidates. You’ll see that there was a difference between Clinton and Sanders’ supporters, with the pro-Sanders camp expressing fewer negative views on race than those backing Clinton.