America is divided by education
America is divided by education
- November 7, 2018
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, via The Atlantic, Nov. 7, 2018
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But in 2008, the election of Barack Obama, a black man, signaled that the Democrats were becoming the party of progressive racial politics. “Obama’s presidency simplifies the politics of race,” Michael Tesler, an associate professor of political science at UC Irvine, says. “If you were a low-educated white, you were much more likely to know about the partisan differences on race [after Obama] than you were before.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/education-gap-explains-american-politics/575113/.
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