Trade or Trust: Untangling New Data on Trump's Rise

• In Event: Economic Voting

Brief Overview

Attitudes about racial and ethnic minorities, or economic conditions? This paper seeks to reconcile disparate claims about support for Trump in the 2016 presidential election through the use of a unique measure of county-level economic distress.

Authors

• Zhaochen He, Christopher Newport University

• John F. Camobreco, Christopher Newport University