Blows my mind how the Trump administration thinks this is a winning position. Do they not realize how many white people need SNAP? Or is this that point where everybody sees that they really don’t care about the lowest economic quintile of the American population AND they don’t care that it’s visible?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183489/population-of-the-us-by-ethnicity-since-2000/
31% of Black people × Black people are 13% of the population = 4% of the population.
15% of white people × 78% of the population = 12% of the population.
3× as many white people as Black have received SNAP benefits, but they’re in the lowest quintile.
Twice as many Democrats as Republicans.
Maybe the Trump admin knows the lowest quintile is not their voters? Maybe we should stop with the “why would they vote against their own self-interest?” questions? Maybe the Poor People’s Campaign is on to something? (Lots of poor people don’t vote, and if they did, they’d be a huge voting bloc. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voter-turnout-2020-2024/)
I wonder if those high-transfer counties that voted for Trump were characterized by lots of poor people who just didn’t vote? https://eig.org/economic-geography-2024/
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