Americans are about evenly divided on whether new civil rights laws are needed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults say such laws are needed, while 46% say they are not. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Healthcare Surges as Top Problem in US
Americans became much more concerned about healthcare this month, with 18% naming it as the most important problem facing the U.S. Mentions of healthcare tie with mentions of “dissatisfaction with government/poor leadership” at the top of the most important problems list. CONT. Art Swift, Gallup Read more »
Cultural Displacement—Not Economic Hardship—More Predictive of White Working-Class Support for Trump
White working-class voters who reported feelings of cultural dislocation or favored deportation of illegal immigrants were more than three times more likely to support Trump, according to new analysis of a fall PRRI/The Atlantic survey released today. The influence of economic factors is both less powerful and more complex. CONT. […] Read more »
Widespread Discrimination Against LGBT Athletes Exists, Say Most Americans
Eight in ten Americans, 80%, think gay, lesbian, or bisexual athletes face at least some degree of discrimination from their professional teammates. Included here are 35% of residents nationally who believe LGBT athletes suffer from a lot of discrimination from those on their team, and 45% who think they experience […] Read more »
The Collapse of American Identity
After the British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time, he remarked that America was “a nation with the soul of a church.” Mr. Chesterton wasn’t referring to the nation’s religiosity but to its formation around a set of core political beliefs enshrined in founding […] Read more »
Racially biased people are far more likely to oppose black athletes’ protests. Here’s the evidence.
Last year, Colin Kaepernick, then the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, was heavily criticized for kneeling instead of standing during the national anthem. The protest was on behalf of the Black Lives Matter movement. … Decades of research on public opinion has found that negative racial attitudes are strongly […] Read more »