The election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency has left the political establishment reeling. It took no time for the media to produce post-mortems on how they were so wrong in the time leading up to the election and what a Donald Trump victory meant for, and about, the electorate. One early assessment came from CNN pundit Van Jones. Jones called President-Elect Trump’s victory, delivered by winning the white vote, a “whitelash,” that is, white Americans reacting negatively to the ever changing demographics and cultural make up of twenty-first century America. Based on voting statistics it cannot be denied that it was the white vote that propelled Trump to victory. Yes, Trump out performed Mitt Romney with blacks and Hispanics, but not by much, and not nearly enough to net Trump the win.…