Racial tensions surged back onto the American political agenda during the 2016 election. Following numerous mass protests and sporadic riots sparked by the deaths of people of color at the hands of police officers, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took opposite positions on the “law and order” issue. Clinton expressed […] Read more »
A New Study Confirms (Again) That Race, Not Economics, Drove Former Democrats To Trump
… “Economic distress is not a significant factor in explaining the shift in Iowa voters from Democrat to Republican between 2008 and 2016,” write Iowa State University sociologists Ann Oberhauser, Daniel Krier, and Abdi Kusow. “The election outcomes do not signify [a revolt] among working-class voters left behind by globalization.” […] Read more »
The Fickle Over the Faithful
… A 2017 study by Johns Hopkins University researchers Stephen L. Morgan and Jiwon Lee, which was published in the Sociological Science journal, found that non-Hispanic white voters totaled 69.3 percent of the electorate in 2016. The percentage of that total who were working class was just 18.6 percent. Conversely, […] Read more »
In Pennsylvania, Joe Biden Finds Support Where He Most Needs It
The case for Joseph R. Biden Jr. has always come down to Pennsylvania. … Mr. Biden’s entry was met, particularly on social media, by a chorus of doubts at times bordering on derision from critics and progressive activists who questioned his age, his status as a white man and his […] Read more »
How Trump has changed white evangelicals’ views about morality
Recently, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has been criticizing religious conservatives — especially Vice President Pence — for supporting President Trump, despite his lewd behavior. To drive home the point, Buttigieg often refers to Trump as the “porn star president.” We were curious about the attitudes of rank-and-file evangelicals. After […] Read more »
Is the new Democratic Party too woke to nominate Joe Biden?
Joe Biden might seem like the 2020 candidate of anachronism. He’s old in a party that skews young; a white, straight candidate courting an increasingly diverse electorate; an old-school liberal in a party moving to the left; and more conventionally credentialed than hot commodities such as South Bend, Ind., Mayor […] Read more »