As we approach Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2022, a small majority of voters, 52 percent, think that minority New Yorkers have the same opportunities as white New Yorkers, while 41 percent think they do not. Although a majority of Democrats and an overwhelming majority of Blacks say minority New […] Read more »
Americans’ Views of Race Issues Including Critical Race Theory, Systemic Racism and Reparations
As the U.S. enters the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, new results from a national University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll shed light on Americans’ racial views and their attitudes toward critical race theory. The poll found that over half of Americans (53%) believe that white people in the U.S. […] Read more »
Controversy Over the Term ‘Latinx’: Public Opinion Context
Labels matter, and nowhere have we seen this exemplified more throughout the centuries than in controversies over names used to describe racial and ethnic groups. … One of the central threads in critiques of the use of “Latinx” is evidence measuring the opinions of rank-and-file Hispanic Americans themselves. These data […] Read more »
One year after Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, concern about misinformation is high
As the spread of false information tops the list of the public’s concerns at the moment, a new Ipsos poll finds that nearly half of Americans get a failing grade (defined as answering 5 or fewer questions correctly, out of 10) when asked to determine if a set of statements […] Read more »
Republicans and Democrats have split over whether to support multiethnic democracy, our research shows
As the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol approaches, it’s clear that the ever-increasing gap between the Republican and Democratic parties includes different views about the nature of U.S. democracy and core American values. Our recent research finds that this divergence grows in no small part […] Read more »
The Republican Axis Reversing the Rights Revolution
The great divergence is rapidly expanding—and President Joe Biden’s window to reverse it is narrowing. Since the 1960s, Congress and federal courts have acted mostly to strengthen the floor of basic civil rights available to citizens in all 50 states, a pattern visible on issues from the dismantling of Jim […] Read more »