One voter group Donald Trump consistently polls better with than Hillary Clinton are working-class whites. Trump’s message is resonating with those voters in key states like Ohio. One reason is that the loss of manufacturing and mining jobs there has left many struggling; and that sense of downward mobility is fueling anger. In an op-ed for the New York Times, author and journalist Hector Tobar writes about white despair among his students at the University of Oregon. It’s titled, “My Lesson From White America.”
What Hector Tobar's students taught him about white despair
Credits
Guest:
- Héctor Tobar - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’”