The nation’s largest cities and metropolitan areas — home to a majority of Democratic voters — are at the forefront of the party’s most vexing racial, ethnic and class conflicts. … Allies on Election Day, the two wings of the Democratic Party are growing further estranged in other aspects of […] Read more »
Trump Wants America to Revert to the Queens of His Childhood
During President Trump’s formative years, Queens — the New York City “outer borough” in which he grew up — was transformed from an all-white enclave into a racial and ethnic battleground. The forces unleashed in those struggles shaped Trump’s current policies on both immigration and racial integration. … Taken together, […] Read more »
Explaining Support for Trump in the White Working Class: Race vs. Economics
It has been almost 18 months since the 2018 presidential election, but pundits and scholars continue to debate how President Donald Trump pulled off one of the most shocking upsets in recent political history. There is general agreement on one point — Trump’s strong appeal to white-working class voters was […] Read more »
Americans view MLK as important, but believe only some of his goals have been achieved
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, a vast majority of Americans call him a very important historical figure — but most think only some of his goals have been achieved, according to a new CBS News poll. CONT. CBS News Read more »
50 years after Martin Luther King’s Assassination: Assessing Progress of the Civil Rights Movement
On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis. Most Americans today say at least some of the goals of the 1960’s civil rights movement that he spearheaded have been attained. But black and white Americans differ widely in how they perceive the treatment of […] Read more »
The Bobby Kennedy Pathway
After the 2016 election, many progressives were furious to learn that 22 percent of the working-class whites who once supported President Barack Obama voted for Donald Trump. How could the same people back two political figures with such diametrically opposed approaches, particularly on the defining issue of race? As we […] Read more »