Trump against the tide (Opinion)
Trump against the tide (Opinion)
- May 31, 2018
- Research by Michael Tesler, poli sci, in The New York Times, May 31, 2018
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Immigration in essence is an issue that hinges on race. White conservatives vote on
race. As Michael Tesler, a political scientist at the University of California at
Irvine, put it in The Washington Post in November 2016: “Racial attitudes became strongly
connected to whether whites identified as Democratic or Republican during Barack Obama’s
presidency. That, by itself, meant that racial attitudes would matter a great deal
in 2016 — even above the powerful impact of partisanship itself.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/opinion/trump-liberals-emancipation-future.html.
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