While more than half of Americans approve of the recent protests against police violence, black and white Americans have differing views. Black Americans are more likely than white people to strongly approve. Views differ based on partisanship with 79% of Democrats approving of the protests while just 29% of Republicans […] Read more »
Divisions emerge on renaming military bases, reparations amid unrest
As the country grapples with a widespread reckoning over the prevalence of racism, majorities of Americans are resistant to renaming U.S. military bases that carry the names of Confederate leaders, and are voicing particular opposition to providing descendants of slaves with reparations, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released […] Read more »
Race Relations as the Nation’s Most Important Problem
Gallup’s long-standing “most important problem” question provides important context for measuring the impact of the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The question asks Americans to name, off the top of their head, the most important problem facing the nation. Gallup has been asking this question since 1939 […] Read more »
Biden and Trump Are Fighting Each Other in a Changed World
America has swung wildly from electing, and re-electing, its first African-American president, to installing the most belligerently white chief executive in the nation’s history. Now, as a multiracial cohort of demonstrators has massed in more than 2000 cities and towns, as Covid-19 has shifted to red states and as the […] Read more »
Public opinion on policing has shifted. Here’s how to tell if the changes will stick.
In the three weeks since George Floyd’s death, public opinion on race and policing has zoomed left. Support for Black Lives Matter is skyrocketing. Almost 60 percent of Americans think police are more likely to use excessive force on an African American suspect than a white suspect — a sea […] Read more »
The Rage Unifying Boomers and Gen Z
The 1960s have achieved almost mythic status as a hinge point in American history. Both those who welcomed and feared the convulsive changes the decade brought can agree on one thing: Socially, culturally, and politically, the nation was a very different place when it ended than when it began. This […] Read more »