Racially divisive parties have more voters now, but voters aren’t becoming more racist. What explains this?
Racially divisive parties have more voters now, but voters aren’t becoming more racist. What explains this?
- December 2, 2019
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, in The Washington Post, Dec. 2, 2019
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In the United States, John Sides, [UCI Associate Professor] Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck conclude in what has become the definitive study of the 2016 election that “Trump’s victory was never predicated on a wave of growing hostility or prejudice; rather it relied on his willingness to openly appeal to an existing reservoir of discontent about changing American society and culture … making it more strongly related to how” some citizens voted.
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/02/racially-divisive-parties-have-more-voters-now-voters-arent-becoming-more-racist-what-explains-this/.
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