Majorities of Americans continue to believe blacks have the same opportunity as whites to get any job for which they are qualified, as well as to get any housing they can afford, but the percentages holding these views are the lowest Gallup has recorded in decades. … Roughly nine in […] Read more »
Protests Seen as Harming Civil Rights Movement in the ’60s
In current times, reflection on Martin Luther King Jr.’s life often involves celebrating the nonviolent tactics he advocated as key to much of the civil rights movement’s success. At the time of his leadership in the 1960s, however, Americans held very different views of the effectiveness of mass demonstrations, boycotts […] Read more »
The Disturbing, Surprisingly Complex Relationship Between White Identity Politics and Racism
In her new book, “White Identity Politics,” the Duke political scientist Ashley Jardina examines the increasing relevance of white identity in America. Drawing on data from American National Election Studies surveys and her own research, Jardina finds that about thirty to forty per cent of white Americans say that white […] Read more »
The GOP distanced itself from Steve King. Is it signaling a shift on Trump?
… So long as the president remains overwhelmingly popular among Republican voters, there’s almost no chance that Republican officeholders would take serious steps to curb Trump as they have curbed King. However, the example of President George W. Bush’s second term showed that congressional Republicans can desert their leader quite […] Read more »
Generation Z Looks a Lot Like Millennials on Key Social and Political Issues
No longer the new kids on the block, Millennials have moved firmly into their 20s and 30s, and a new generation is coming into focus. Generation Z – diverse and on track to be the most well-educated generation yet – is moving toward adulthood with a liberal set of attitudes […] Read more »
White right? How demographics is changing US politics
Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University When Donald Trump was campaigning to become the U.S. president, much of the discussion about his growing popularity focused on so-called “angry white males,” who had been struggling through years of declining economic opportunities. Their frustration led some of them to adopt and espouse white […] Read more »