The Democracy Fund, a bipartisan foundation that funds political research, polled 8000 people who voted in the 2012 presidential election. The survey was done in November 2016.
The survey was about what it means to be an American. Trump voters really are different.
For example, is it important to have European ancestry? 16% of Democrats and 23% of Republicans thought this was important. 30% of Trump supporters thought so.
What about being a Christian? About 1/3 of Democrats and 46% of Republicans thought that was important. For Trump voters, 63%.
The Democracy Fund did similar studies in 1996, 2004, and 2014. The data show that the nation as a whole is moving away from exclusionary conceptions of American identity. (Except for Trump voters.)
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