A ‘basket of deplorables’? A new study finds that Trumpsupporters are more likely to be Islamophobic, racist,transphobic and homophobic
Blair, K. L.
(2016).
A ‘basket of deplorables’? A new study finds that Trumpsupporters are more likely to be Islamophobic, racist,transphobic and homophobic.
Last month Hillary Clinton stepped into controversy when she described ‘half’ of Donald Trump’s supporters as a ‘basket of deplorables’. In a new study, Karen L. Blair looks at how Clinton and Trump voters’ attitudes on themes such as sexism, authoritarianism and Islamophobia differ. She finds that Islamophobia is closely linked with support for Trump, and that the strongest predictor of voting for someone other than Clinton or Trump was not disagreeing with Clinton ideologically, but ambivalent sexism.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2016 The Authors, USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog, The London School of Economics and Political Science © CC BY-NC 3.0 |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 29 Nov 2016 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68398 |