Can the Democrats win back white working-class voters?
Can the Democrats win back white working-class voters?
- September 6, 2016
- Research by Michael Tesler, political science professor, featured by The Nation, Sept. 6, 2016
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I side with UC Irvine’s Michael Tesler, who’s been studying the role of “racial resentment” in political divisions since Obama took office. From the Tea Party to the Trump phenomenon, he’s found that voters who score high on surveys designed to measure racial resentment are more likely to say that economic conditions are bad under Obama; those who are more “racially sympathetic” see, accurately, that the economy has improved dramatically since 2009. Tesler has found similar divisions between Trump supporters and detractors.
For the full story, please visit https://www.thenation.com/article/can-the-democrats-win-back-white-working-class-voters/.
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