For whites sensing decline, Donald Trump unleashes words of resistance

For whites sensing decline, Donald Trump unleashes words of resistance
- July 13, 2016
- Michael Tesler, political science associate professor, in The New York Times, July 13, 2016
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And during Mr. Obama’s presidency, whites have increasingly seen his policies as freighted with preference toward blacks, according to data collected by Michael Tesler, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Tesler used polling questions about the causes and depth of racial inequality – such as whether blacks suffer greater poverty because of discrimination or lack of effort – to classify people as either “racial conservatives” or “racial liberals.”
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