Even though the elections are over in the US, it is still a matter of hot discussion as the results were not just unexpected, they were rather shocking. Critics, analysts and experts are still looking for the possible reasons for such a huge upset.
According to FiveThirtyEight, a statistical analysis on the election involving the difference of the candidates' vote count with their predecessors can give the actual picture of what actually happened. The analysis tells that Hillary Clinton had a chance of victory in 48 most well-educated counties, which were nine percent more than Obama.
These counties, which are highly educated and have diverse ethnicity, include San Fransisco, Johnson city, Kansas and Michigan. Other counties with lesser population and education levels, and where white people are the majority voted for Trump, 30 points more than Mitt Romney.
Counties with rich people but lower education levels also voted for Donald Trump and these places helped won the presidency for the Republican nominee. It seems that statistically, despite Trump's hate-commentary regarding a number of American groups, the population, especially the diminishing middle-class and lower-middle classes, are fed up of the status-quo that Clinton was a representative of.
Stats suggest that education won votes to Clinton but income supported Trump. However, recent news has more to contribute in the analysis. NYMag claims in a new report that the counties in which death rates caused by drugs, killing, suicides and alcohol abuse voted more for Trump. The number of deaths from drug overdose and alcohol abuse in America has increased 137 percent in the last two decades.
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild of the University of California, Berkeley stated that people in these areas are behind in terms of technology, innovation and new forms of businesses and their economy is far behind than that of the developed areas. Some Trump detractors even said that the newly elected U.S. president might have used the negligence of the people in such communities for political benefit and raised hope in them.
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