Here is one reason having nothing to do with race that explains why many white, working-class people voted for Trump:

*****White, working class males are disproportionately likely to die in this country's wars and Trump was the least hawkish major party candidate in both the primaries and the general election--in both 2016 and 2020. ********

Here is a link to a Baltimore Sun article exploring the Iraq war's effects on the white working class: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2005-10-30-0510290288-story.html

Often, Trump's antiwar views are edited out by networks. Here's one example of CNN editing his victory speech.

The full speech, broadcast live, contains a strong statement of Trump's intent to not rush to war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFeq6zEu26k

The edited version does NOT contain his statement of his antiwar views:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtO9VJF3WLk

Because Trump's live victory speech occurred in the middle of the night, CNN viewers were probably more likely to see the edited version.

Few of a president elect's opinions are more important than his view on war and peace. Yet, CNN chose not to include these words in its edited version.

In 2020, CNN broke with tradition by not focusing the last debate of the campaign season on foreign policy. The reason is obvious: Biden voted for the Iraq war, which remains wildly unpopular with veterans and their families. Trump, on the other hand, was the first president since Carter to not involve the US in a new war and troop deaths were at their lowest since Carter's presidency.

Thus, CNN altered the debate format in a way that favored Biden because it kept his foreign policy weaknesses out of the discussion.

Because networks do not focus on Trump's foreign policy views, people who do not follow war and peace issues are unaware of Trump's views and lacking this information, can only conclude that Trump voters are irredeemable bigots.

Voting for the candidate least likely to support a war is not evidence of moral depravity. In 2016, we had a choice between a war hawk--Clinton was never anywhere near power without being instrumental in starting a war such as in Iraq and Libya--and a demagogue.

It was a hard choice.