White-on-White Voting<br />The election of Donald Trump revealed that in some of the nation’s whitest municipalities<br />and counties — the communities arguably most insulated from urban crime, immigration and gangs — Trump did far better than Romney had done four years earlier.<br />Trump trailed Romney in the majority of municipalities, just as he did in the national vote: Trump won 45.93 percent of the total vote last year, 1.2<br />percentage points less than Romney’s 47.1 percent in 2012 (third party candidates in 2016 picked up slightly more of the vote than they did in 2012).<br />“To the extent Trump really resonated, it was in heavily-white areas — and<br />that includes exurbs at the urban fringe, rural areas, and many heavily white second-ring suburbs,” Stancil wrote in his email.<br />They are in the part of the nation’s heartland — Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio,<br />and Pennsylvania — where Trump earned enough Electoral College support to win the presidency even as he lost the popular vote.
