attitudes toward the demographic, cultural, and even economic changes that are reshaping america. the democrats fou rely on the places and the voters that are the most comfortable with change, and republicans rely on' antly white, heavily evangelical, non-urban voters who are most uneasy about that change. if you look at the academic studies in 2016, they all reach the same conclusion the belief on whether or not racism still persists in this society and whether or not there is gender discrimination in this society was a much better predictor of how people voted in 2016 than their immediate economic circumstance. the more likely people were to deny that racism exists or deny that gender discrimination exists, the more likely they were to vote for donald trump. what i point out in this story is that relationship is still holding true very powerfully. i looked at some results from the quinnipiac university national polling in late august, and among people who say they approve of donald trump's performance in office, more of them say whites face discrimination than say