Who are Donald Trump's voters? What do they want? Observers call them angry, but anger has root causes and grievances. A December 2015 Washington Post-ABC News poll tells what we already sensed-his supporters tilt toward male, white, and poor. Other polls tell us the most important single predictor for Trump voters is that they didn't go to college. A study from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project informs this picture: full-year employment of men with a high school diploma but without a college degree dropped from 76% in 1990 to 68% in 2013; the share of these men who did not work at all rose from 11% to 18%. Although real wages have grown for men and women with college degrees, they have fallen for men without college degrees: the median income of these men fell by 20% between 1990 and 2013. This is not the American Dream. A Rand survey unearths another key feature: voters who agreed with the statement "voters like me don't have any say about what the government does" were 86% more likely to vote for Trump than were voters who disagreed. They feel they have no voice and no power. These voters also resent trade agreements and immigrants competing for jobs, and more come from areas where racism historically has been more prevalent.
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