Who gets to be a ‘real American’ has always been about exclusion
Who gets to be a ‘real American’ has always been about exclusion
- February 23, 2022
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, FiveThirtyEight, Feb. 23, 2022
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In “White Identity Politics,” Duke University political scientist Ashley E. Jardina
argues that white racial grievances have a more powerful effect on political beliefs
when white people perceive themselves as under threat. As Michael Tesler, a FiveThirtyEight
contributor and professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine,
wrote, that’s “one reason why Trump was so effective in his many appeals to the cultural,
economic and physical threats that they were supposedly facing.”
For the full story, please visit https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/who-gets-to-be-a-real-american-has-always-been-about-exclusion/.
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