Whites ‘Losing Out’ To Minorities, Majority Of Trump Backers Say

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listen to him speak during a campaign rally Saturday, March 19, 2016, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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More than supporters of any other Republican presidential candidate, those backing Donald Trump think white people in America are “losing out” because of preferences for blacks and Hispanics, according to a Wednesday analysis from The Washington Post.

A Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted earlier this month asked: “Which of these do you think is a bigger problem in this country — blacks and Hispanics losing out because of preferences for whites, or whites losing out because of preferences for blacks and Hispanics?”

More than half of Trump supporters, 54 percent, thought white people losing out was a bigger problem. The share of Trump’s supporters who believed whites were losing out was 12 points higher than the share of all Republican
voters surveyed in the poll who believe this.

Thirty-seven percent of Cruz supporters and 35 percent of Rubio/Kasich voters also said “whites losing out because of preferences for blacks and Hispanics” was a bigger problem.

Here are the results in chart form from The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent:

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  1. And most Americans think Trump supporters are “losing it”.

  2. And, after our nations shameful past history of bringing Irish, Italian, Spanish, Polish, and other oppressed white majorities over on slave ships to our shores to pick cotton for their evil multi-ethnic masters, they have every logical reason to believe they are “losing out”.

  3. Oh, I’m sorry, but fuck them.

    Whites control something like 90-95% of the power/wealth in this nation.

    How many minority CEOs are there? Could they even name ONE? How many minority Senators/Congressmen? How many minority Billionaires?

    Minorities control a VERY tiny portion of ANYTHING. Mostly because up to a few decades ago, Whites controlled ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.

    And the minute minorities seem like they might be doing better, or that Whites will no longer just get everything handed to them because they’re White, we get this bullshit from poor white folk?

    Why don’t they blame the folk in charge? That is, why don’t they blame WHITE folk for sucking them dry so they can give themselves another $10,000,000 yearly raise?

    F*CK THEM. Seriously. These folk can all go to hell.

  4. Only 54% of Trump supporters?! I would have guessed something in the low-90%'s.

  5. 29% of Trump supporters expressed anger at their inability to dunk a basketball.

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