Im not sure I agree, the individual vote was ignored this election. According to the people, Clinton should be our president, so there were actually more Americans against Trump than there are for him. Which im assuming you correlate to there being more people opposed to racism than there are for it (assuming you view trump as racist and hillary as not) If youre referring to the electoral college vote, I have nothing to say. I didnt see exactly who voted for who and where they live, but I would assume more midwest bible-thumpy people voted for tump over clinton, yet I have no evidence to suggest they solely did that just because they didnt want to compete with "brown" people.
As someone who did see the demographics of the victory, let me inform you that he got the W via the rust belt with an unprecedented +14% on non-college whites vs his predecessor. Of course he sacrificed -10 on college whites who didn't take to his rhetoric, but they weren't where it mattered for the EC, ie clinton can get 2mil or 20mil more votes elsewhere, it don't matter.
As to an analysis of why they voted for him, consider the additional fact that his core followers are hardly poor (~70k+ household), meaning they have some of the few good jobs remaining for their level of edu attainment. They also exhibit tremendous racial resentment, even compared to the GOP field. I can link these studies eg ANES 2016 Pilot if necessary. These are simply matters of fact.
Now if we only look at the specifics of said rhetoric which did so well in the belt, it deftly paints illegal (undesirable brownies) on the other side of the country & such who're hardly competing for those good jobs as a threat to their way of life. It doesn't exactly take a genius to figure out that plays precisely to people who overwhelmingly answer in the affirmative to "minorities are getting ahead at the expense of whites".
The best possible argument for your case is that Trump is like the racially insensitive gramps who somehow fluked his way to the white house, but I'd like to give some credit that he knew what he was doing just like with the obama is an african muslim show, and so did a good chunk of his followers. To their credit, the GOP establishment was gradually moving away from exploiting white race resentment, but I guess Trumped showed them the path to victory going forward.
I dont benefit at all by not understanding racism, I do understand. Maybe I view things differently as I dont play the victim card on a whim. Ive been in schools, stores, houses, public events, gatherings, parties etc.. and not once have I ever seen someone denied anything specifically because of their skin color or sexual preference or whatever protected class you can come up with. Imagine youre me, a white male, and every single other person of a different ethnicity doesnt like me because im white and a male, because they view my ethnicity as oppressive and seem to think I have certain privileges only granted to those with a melanin deficiency. See how that rhetoric can get annoying? I dont view others differently until they give me a reason to, and skin color is not a reason. Id appreciate it if nobody just assumed im a racist/republican/privelatged/mysoginist whatever just because im white.
This is a good discussion, ill continue it when i get home from work.
So you're basically feeling how many minorities do as a fact of life, and it sure doesn't feel great. The difference is that for historic reasons known to you, white folks still largely control institutions of power and the very real socioeconomic division by race in this country is the result. Try to fix that via affirmative action toward a level playing field and, well, you've seen the reaction.
When Trump's strategist Bannon says too many asian leads in silicon valley is a threat to "civic society", presumably something he's in the business of fixing, we all know what he's talking about and where the incoming administration is looking to take this.