Before the U.S. presidential election a reveal of comparisons were made yesteryear commentators betwixt the emergence of Donald Trump as well as the Brexit vote inwards the UK. Now that America has voted nosotros tin encounter that at that topographic point seem to locomote many similarities inwards the types of voters who supported Trump as well as those who voted to leave of absence the European Union inwards the United Kingdom.
In both the UK as well as the U.S. what many are calling the 'anti-establishment' vote was strongest inwards rural areas, spell both Trump as well as Brexit proved far less pop inwards the inner cities. The reasons for this discrepancy is likely best explained yesteryear exploring the huge economical as well as demographic differences inwards these 2 environments.
Bloomberg has created a serial of maps visualizing how dissimilar demographic groups voted across America. The maps inwards The Voters Who Gave Trump the White House present that Hilary Clinton was the to a greater extent than pop candidate inwards the country's wealthiest areas. Trump nevertheless outperformed Clinton inwards lower as well as pump income areas. Trump was too far to a greater extent than pop inwards white, lower educated as well as rural areas of America. He too gained far to a greater extent than back upward from voters who push clit their ancestry every bit 'American'.
In The Voters Who Gave Trump the White House the New York Times has mapped where Donald Trump surpassed Mitt Romney inwards America. Trump made huge gains inwards rural America. Clinton was real pop inwards large metropolitan areas, nevertheless Trump did brand huge gains inwards smaller cities, peculiarly inwards the 1 time industrial heartland. He was too real pop amid white voters without a college education.
The outcomes of the UK's Brexit vote as well as the U.S. presidential election seem to present a large cultural split inwards both countries betwixt those who alive inwards inner-cities as well as those who alive inwards to a greater extent than rural areas. In both elections the anti-immigration declaration appears to accept proved hugely popular. Ironically it seems to accept resonated nigh inwards those areas which are the to the lowest degree diverse.
The rural white, lower income, less educated populations of both countries seem to experience left behind yesteryear what they encounter every bit the institution elite. The political correct inwards the USA as well as the UK accept found an tardily scapegoat to blame for the problems of those who experience left behind inwards both countries. At the minute the left appears to locomote struggling to render an choice declaration every bit to how they volition address the concerns of those who used to locomote their center support.
