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You asserted earlier that the brexit racist person is a stereotype. That is anecdotal, so is saying all brexiters are racist.
I'm afraid you've lost me here - stereotype means a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Oversimplified, not necessarily untrue.
That aside I think to assume all brexit voters are racist is lazy, divisive and helps no one, especially not remain voters (apart from giving a few internet warriors a warm fuzzy feeling perhaps). I also think that the leave supporting press and major backers should have been made to wager their favourite limbs against brexit being a success in return for being able to act as they did.
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Correct, but it is a little better researched than anecdotal evidence. There have been quite a few studies that link anti immigration feelings with Brexit voting.
You asserted earlier that the brexit racist person is a stereotype. That is anecdotal, so is saying all brexiters are racist.
Brexit is also correlated with supporting the death penalty (em, yay??), being older, being male (slightly), being white, authoritarianism and probably reading some newspapers (though maybe the attitudes came before the newspaper choice, rather than the other way around)
Not sure how you would set up a causation study? Though to cause misschief perhaps the xenophobic papers in the UK have done exactly that...input shitty prejudices for 20 years and presto! ;)