… Self-identified Republicans make up a minority in the U.S. And it is a poor political strategy to appeal only to a minority of the minority when running for president. Yet, Trump is doing something even more politically devastating: he is alienating everyone else. It is not just that his […] Read more »
Bernie Sanders Most Popular Candidate Among Asian-Americans
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders enjoys the highest level of popularity for any major candidate of either party among Asian-Americans, with his favorable score exceeding his unfavorable score by 29 percentage points with this group. CONT. Andrew Dugan, Gallup Read more »
The GOP’s identity-politics crisis: Holding race-card aces but loath to play them
… After years of deriding Democrats for dividing Americans into hyphenated subgroups, Republicans face a tantalizing and vexing prospect this year. With two sons of Cuban immigrants, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, joining a famed African American surgeon, Ben Carson, near the top of the polls, they have a unique […] Read more »
Trump Supporters Deeply Wary of Illegal Immigration, Syrian Refugees in U.S.
Donald Trump, as many people on the left and even some on the right agree, is undoubtedly and intentionally making controversial remarks on cultural, racial and religious issues. But what’s emerged as the more complicated question is whether Trump’s supporters agree with all of his remarks. … Pollsters, while not […] Read more »
Race and Reality in America: Five key findings
… CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation partnered to survey Americans on issues relating to race and ethnicity. The poll explores how things have changed in the last 20 years and what race means now. The survey also examines how different groups of Americans experience race day-to-day, and what they […] Read more »
How racism explains Republicans’ rise in the South
… Democrats began losing the support of white voters after World War II, particularly in the South. During the civil rights movement, white Southerners left the Democratic Party in droves. Some scholars have argued that changes in the South’s economy caused the party’s decline there. Since wealthier voters tend to […] Read more »