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I tend to focus on, you know, what are the big structural forces here?

Because it's very easy to devolve into, you know, a game of clue where it was it, was it Latin X in the billiard room or was it you know to fund the police in the

kitchen that did it. Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast. I'm Gailin Druk. A lot has

been made of the diploma divide in American politics over the past decade,

voters with a college degree and those without moving in opposite

political directions. What's perhaps less commonly noted is which side of that divide has the strength in numbers.

Only 38% of American adults have a college degree, according to the census. The composition of the electorate can

change from year to year and place-to-place, but nationally it is never the case that college-educated

voters make up the majority. The so-called working class takes that distinction.

And if you've been paying attention to politics lately, you probably know that in 2016

white working-class voters shifted decisively to the right.

In 2020, working class voters of color followed suit to varying degrees, though still

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