Everyone's favorite apricot demagogue won big in another state last night. Donald Trump carried Nevada with the support of 45 percent of caucus-goers, 22 points clear of his nearest rival, Marco Rubio. But the specifics of the win—that is, who exactly came out to support him—were just as remarkable. Trump being Trump, he said as much in his victory speech:

"We won the Evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. We're the smartest people, we're the most loyal people."

Now, it's obviously unusual to call attention to your supporters' low level of education—it's normally a seen-not-heard situation. But Trump, who graduated from an Ivy League school, also seems to be putting himself in this group. We're smart and loyal, he says to his kindred spirits, We're just proud Americans with common sense. Trump also has plenty of reason to love the less-educated: the half of voters without a college degree he took in Nevada (including 57 percent of those with no college at all) was right in line with what he's been doing across the country.

He also had time to gloat about his (admittedly remarkable) support among Hispanics. He took 45 percent of the Hispanic vote in Nevada, about what Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio got combined.

All this is to say that, while identity politics plays a part—South Carolina showed that he has the white supremacist vote locked up—there's clearly more than that to the Trump phenomenon. After all, he also won among the well-educated last night.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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