For decades, Republicans have sought to make gains with a critical voting bloc: Latinos. Last month, when Mayra Flores was elected to Congress from Texas, she finally showed them a way to gain that support. Today, we explore what her campaign tells us about the future of the Latino vote. […] Read more »
Are Latinos Really Realigning Toward Republicans?
Once the backbone of the Democratic base, working-class white voters have been migrating toward the Republican Party since the 1960s, largely out of alienation from the Democrats’ liberal stands on cultural and racial issues. Half a century later, those working-class white voters—usually defined as having less than a four-year college […] Read more »
Voters of color are backing the GOP at historic levels
… All you have to do is turn on the political news to see that we are a country where political tribalism is high. Political science tells us that congressional polarization, for instance, is at its highest level since the 19th century. But while Democrats and Republicans may be further […] Read more »
As Latino voters shift right, here’s where Democrats will be hit hardest
The Democrats have a Latino voter problem. The remarkable recent shift of Latino voters toward the Republican Party has been broad and significant, though the full story — will it prove “transitory,” to use a word infamously associated with President Biden’s struggles? — is still developing. … So if Democrats […] Read more »
White Americans see an increase in discrimination against other white people and less against other racial groups
Polling suggests that white and Black Americans are coming from different positions on discrimination. DigitalVision Vector/Getty Images Stella Rouse, University of Maryland and Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland Despite largely holding the political, economic and social levers of power, nearly a third of white Americans say they have seen “a […] Read more »
Friendship Networks of White Americans Continue to Be 90% White
Across demographic groups, Americans’ core friendship networks tend to be dominated by people of their same race or ethnic background—particularly white Americans, among whom 90% of their friendship networks are also white, according to a new survey conducted by Public Religion Research Institute. The new survey of over 5,000 Americans, […] Read more »