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Angie Torres

Dr. Angela Mitchell

UWRT 1102-003

24 February 2018

Female Trump Voters: Why?

Annotated Bibliography

Bock, Jarrod, et al. “The Role of Sexism in Voting in the 2016 Presidential Election.”​Personality

and Individual Differences​, vol. 119, 2017, pp. 189–193.,doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.07.026.

A study was performed to analyze the impact of sexism in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The study was performed on 239 individuals, 170 identifying as female and 28 identifying as

male. Participants were given an online questionnaire, which offered them a series of questions

including party identification, which candidate they voted for, and their attitudes towards women

and sexism. The results found that those who had voted for Donald J. Trump were significantly

more sexist and were less likely to have egalitarian views towards women.

The authors of this peer reviewed academic article are a part of the Department of Psychology at

Oklahoma State University. It was published by the scholarly journal, Elsevier, with the intention

to bring about knowledge and discussion on the topic of sexism in such a hostile and chaotic

presidential election. It does a fair job of identifying what Trump voters are more inclined to

believe and feel. It is useful in the sense that I have a better scope of his voters and it verifies the

stereotype of Trump’s voters.


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Jaffe, Sarah. “Why Did a Majority of White Women Vote for Trump?” ​New Labor Forum​, vol.

27, no. 1, 2018, pp. 18–26., doi:10.1177/1095796017744550.

The author analyzed the voter tendencies of white females in previous elections and found that

there should have been no surprise in the end result of the election. The evidence had been hiding

in plain sight and has been consistent since the 1950s. The author lists many ways that Clinton

lost white female voters in various comments and strategies. One of these examples would be

Clinton naming Trump voters to be “deplorable”, which not only swayed away white women

away from her cause but was flipped and used by Trump in a sarcastic, humorous manner and

used the term on merchandise. Jaffe concludes that white women did not feel a connection to

Clinton simply because she was a woman on the ballot and continued with their usual voter

tendencies by favoring the Republican candidate.

This peer reviewed scholarly article was very useful in understanding the voter tendencies of

white women in the election and gave me clues as to how I should continue my research. It was

published in the New Labor Forum by SAGE Journals. There is a lot of useful information

related to different demographics of white women within this article that I will be referencing

frequently in my research inquiry project. I feel as though it is very thorough by including

different social classes of white women and their quotes.

Junn, Jane. “The Trump Majority: White Womanhood and the Making of Female Voters in the

U.S.” ​Politics, Groups, and Identities​, vol. 5, no. 2, 2017, pp. 343–352.,

doi:10.1080/21565503.2017.1304224.

This articles delves a bit deeper as to why white women vote the way they do and I found it very

intriguing. Junn suggests that before anything, they are white before they are women and will
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vote in such a manner that allows them to have their white privilege before they consider any

else. The article also referenced Mary Jackman’s velvet glove theory, which suggests that an

individual will persuade someone by offering them protection in turn for power. It is the “velvet

glove that covers the iron fist of patriarchy”.

This peer reviewed scholarly article was written for the Politics, Groups, and Identities Journal

with the intended audience of political scientists. Junn encourages other political scientists to

study white women more closely, as she suggests they can be swing voters in elections. I feel

like this is would be a great addition to my research inquiry project because it ties so well with

Jaffe’s article and her findings.

Khalid, Asma. “Are GOP Women Warming Up To Donald Trump?” ​NPR​, NPR, 15 June 2016,

www.npr.org/2016/06/15/482113672/are-gop-women-warming-up-to-trump.

In this article, Khalid performed multiple interviews with women throughout Ohio and asked

them about their views and feelings towards republican candidate Donald Trump. Most women

were not fond of him, however all except one were willing to vote for him for the sake of their

party. Most of them were more fond of the Ohio governor John Kasich. These women stated that

they were willing to turn a blind eye to his comments and actions if they had to, but are not

thrilled by his behavior.

"Muslim woman: I'm one of Trump's "silent voters"." CNN Wire. (November 11, 2016 Friday

6:14 PM GMT ): 368 words. LexisNexis Academic. Web. Date Accessed: 2018/02/25.

This interview with Asra Nomani delves into why a Muslim woman would vote for Trump and

the backlash she received from choice to do so. Nomani identifies as a liberal, but felt as though

she needed to vote for Trump to address her concern towards the threat of Muslim extremists.
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Nomani acknowledges that Trump is “indelicate” but argues that political correctness will get the

U.S. nowhere.

This interview was conducted by CNN’s Alexandra King and provides a scope of the minority

women that voted for Trump and why they chose to do so. The intended audience is the general

public and the purpose is to aid in the backlash Nomani received for disclosing her choice in the

election. This information is useful to my research because Trump carried a negative connotation

towards Muslims throughout his campaign and even introduced a Muslim ban shortly after he

was elected. I find it curious that Nomani was not put off by his words and actions, but instead

engaged by them.

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