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Recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology by Thomas F. Pettigrew seeks to understand the psychological profile of Trump supporters:
The Trump movement is not singular within the United States (the Know Nothing movement in the 1850s, the Wallace movement in the 1960s, and the more recent Tea Party Movement). Moreover, other democracies have seen similar movements (e.g., Austria's Freedom Party, Belgium's Vlaams Blok, France's National Front, Germany's Alternative for Germany Party (AfD), and Britain's U.K. Independence Party (UKIP).
In virtually all these cases, the tinder especially involved male nativists and populists who were less educated than the general population. But this core was joined by other types of voters as well. Five highly interrelated characteristics stand out that are central to a social psychological analysis – authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, outgroup prejudice, the absence of intergroup contact and relative deprivation.No one factor describes Trump's supporters. But an array of factors – many of them reflecting five major social psychological phenomena can help to account for this extraordinary political event: authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, prejudice, relative deprivation, and intergroup contact.
(Score: 2, Informative) by meustrus on Thursday December 07 2017, @10:47PM
Your science stinks, but there is a useful point in a response [soylentnews.org]:
Your copypasta doesn't sound like "hatred, bigotry, racist, etc." because it's utterly incoherent. But that doesn't mean somebody else couldn't have made a coherent example. There are many real examples, however, of such sociology [wikipedia.org].
Yes, the white male Trump supporter is a uniquely acceptable target for bigotry right now. But that's because all other targets have become unacceptable, and white males are still socially dominant in the US. It's a good time for us all to start thinking of them as a minority, however. The legal arguments around the anti-gay baker case show that evangelicals at least are beginning to accept that their power over the rest of us is waning, leaving only individual liberty for them to maintain. The white male, the rural class, and the intersection thereof is figuring it out too.
The main thing standing in the way of the white male's acceptance into the diverse range of minorities is their belief in their own exceptionalism. When it erodes, I expect we will see a slow death of anti-PC rhetoric as those people start insisting that articles like this stop targeting them. If not, the white male may end up the target of more serious retribution as the former targets of prejudice will not be willing to hear calls for tolerance from the intolerant.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?