I types out and deleted twice multi-paragraphee answers. I don’t think a tldr is better. For reference, I’m barely gen-x and voted.for harris. my immediate family, whom I will reference, are boomers from the late 40s to 1960. I don’t know that they all voted for trump, but at least two said they planned to (I have step-parents as well, so it’s not just a pair above me).

Although there are groups and people they hate, particularly in the context of evangelical christianty in the case of at least two, that was not the motivating factor. The motivating factor to all of them (at least so far as I can interpret it) was a combination of fear and loss of power and purpose when I try to boil it down.

Some of my direct family live in a place that got famous for its.immigramt population this cycle. When I visited I summer of 2023, their complaints were about systems not being able to keep up and unlicensed and uninsured drivers in those groups. Even one of my super evangelical baptist family members didn’t comment on the different variety of Christianity. Had many not been Christians, that might be different

Ok, this is several paragraphs again already. What I think, reading this rambly mess, is it is less hatred at a group (though that does exist), it is fear-based but also based on placed whose systems can’t keep up with the issues they face.

Though, having grown up not far from said place, there are hateful and racist people so that factor’s weight is also non-zero. Even then, I think the erosion of the middle class and their loss of status was the cause rather than direct hatred.

I guess, at my 4th or 5th attempt at this post, my point is that those folks mostly did not directly or intentionally vote because of hatred, but more out of fear and loss.