About 40 percent of white Americans and about 25 percent of non-white Americans are surrounded exclusively by friends of their own race, according to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll. … The figures highlight how segregated the United States remains in the wake of a debate on race sparked by last month’s […] Read more »
Do Popular Votes on Rights Create Animosity Toward Minorities?
Americans regularly make major decisions about minorities and minority rights via the purely majoritarian process of direct democracy. Conflict over the substance of these policies occasionally reaches the US Supreme Court, but effects of the process of direct democracy on perceptions of minorities receive little attention. My recent study of […] Read more »
Blacks, Hispanics More Optimistic Than Whites
Americans’ attitudes about their economic future are sharply divided by race, with whites significantly less likely than blacks or Hispanics to think they can improve their own standard of living. Indeed, optimism among minorities now outpaces that of whites by the widest margin since at least 1987, a new analysis […] Read more »
Americans still dissatisfied with Washington, economy
Americans’ dissatisfaction with the economy continues along with their disapproval of President Obama’s and Congress’ handling of it, according to a new CBS News poll released Wednesday. [cont.] CBS News Read more »
‘Missing Voters’ in the 2012 Election: Not so white, not so Republican
Do “missing white voters” offer hope for the Republican Party in future presidential elections? … We have argued that the “missing white voters” theory is unrealistic for several reasons. The most important is that it ignores the missing nonwhite voters — data on voter turnout in 2012 show that a […] Read more »
Americans Are Once Again Divided by Race
Like a lightning flash in a stormy sky, the Trayvon Martin case has illuminated the depth of the impasse between white and nonwhite America. But a similar dynamic looms less visibly behind Washington’s standoff between a Democratic coalition that relies on overwhelming support from minorities and a Republican coalition still […] Read more »