Although you can hardly call it a representative study, Karen L. Blair PhD (an assistant professor of psychology at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada) contacted 249 mostly male Utahn voters who had taken a test measuring their conservative political leanings and attitudes towards the LGBTQ community. Among the 11.6 percent who planned to vote for Trump, Blair found higher levels of sexism, racism and queerphobia — shocking, right? Blair wrote:
“Clinton voters in this sample reported significantly more positive attitudes towards a number of groups within our society, including gay men, transgender and gender diverse individuals, women, and ethnic minorities. Clinton voters also showed significantly lower levels of Islamophobia than Trump voters, but were not significantly different on this measure compared to voters who were still undecided or planning to vote for a third party candidate.”“In other words,” Blair said, “given Clinton’s definition of ‘a basket of deplorables’ as being people who hold ‘racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic [and] Islamophobic’ sentiments, Trump supporters do appear to exemplify these qualities in comparison to Clinton supporters.”

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