Trump voters think African Americans are much less deserving than 'average Americans' (Blog)
Trump voters think African Americans are much less deserving than 'average Americans' (Blog)
- December 19, 2016
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, via The Huffington Post, Dec. 19, 2016
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Michael Tesler, associate professor of political science, UC Irvine, [writes]: To
quantify this double standard in deservingness we embedded an experiment in a new
HuffPost/YouGov survey. We asked half of our respondents if they agreed or disagreed
with the following statement: “Over the past few years, blacks have gotten less than
they deserve.” The other half of the sample was provided with the exact same statement,
except we changed “blacks” to “average Americans” − a group that psychology research
shows is implicitly synonymous with being white. The results show a very strong public
divide in the perceived deservingness of average Americans and African Americans ….
For the full story, please visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-tesler/trump-voters-think-africa_b_13732500.html.
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