Quote (Black XistenZ @ 20 Aug 2018 16:48)
an interesting find from this article:
http://www.people-press.org/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/08/08145534/2-4.png12% of trump's voters were nonwhite, while 40% of clinton's voters were nonwhite.
but only 9% of clinton's voters were college-educated nonwhites, while 4% of Trump's were.
30% of clinton's voters were non-college nonwhites, 7% of trump's were.
Hence, relative to Clinton, Trump did better with college-educated minorities than with non-college minorities. Clinton edged out Trump by a factor of 30/7 = 4.28 among noncollege minorities, while college-educated minorities only gave her a 9/4 = 2.25-edge over Trump.
Dunno if we should or could read too much into this, but I found it interesting, particularly when compared with the common narrative about the 2016 demographics which focuses on the severe educational split among white voters.
I think you're reading too much into it.
The fact that the ratio in which Clinton beat Trump in non-college educated minorities was bigger than her edge in college-educated minorities vs Trump's doesn't really mean anything except that Clinton was super successful with uneducated brown people but only very successful with college-educated brown people.
If you want to consider education, I think the better way to examine this is Trump and Clinton's voting groups as a whole (i.e. 43% of Clinton's voters were college educated and only 29% of Trump's were).
In a simar way to your point, Clinton was also relativey more successful with college whites vs her total white voters vs Trump despite Trump being more successful with college whites as a whole 48% vs 45%. I'm not going to draw too much information about each candidate's voters' education with those relative values when we have the raw educational info available.