Americans increasingly vote along class lines, not racial ones

New fault lines are emerging in American society based more on class than race, and the shift helped deliver the White House to Donald Trump and could continue to alter the political landscape if more Americans identify themselves less in the context of race and gender and more as belonging to a certain economic class, local media reported.

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"The shift toward class-based sorting also comes as some of the nation's long-time racial categories -- White, Black and Hispanic -- are dissolving fast into more fluid and complex identities," said The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report on Friday.