A majority of Americans think discrimination against Asian Americans has increased over the past year, and many are concerned that incidents of violence are up as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Most Asian Americans feel unsafe in public because of their race at least sometimes. Sixty percent of Americans […] Read more »
The systemic racism in voting
… Three studies, three different methodologies, two different election years, one crystal clear conclusion: Embedded in our electoral system is a systematic bias against Black Americans that renders it more difficult for them to cast ballots than for white Americans. And lest you argue this is merely some spurious correlation, […] Read more »
George Floyd’s Murder Changed Americans’ Views on Policing
President Joe Biden likes to recall a conversation he had with Gianna Floyd, George Floyd’s daughter, at Floyd’s funeral last summer. “Daddy changed the world,” she told Biden. If the first step to changing the world is changing people’s minds, Floyd’s murder one year ago did that—though just how much, […] Read more »
America still struggles to resolve the challenges of race and justice
One year after the death of George Floyd and the subsequent nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, America continues to struggle with resolving tensions between race and justice. Our new Axios-Ipsos Hard Truths polling uses robust samples of white, Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans to investigate attitudes towards the impacts of […] Read more »
Support for Black Lives Matter Surged Last Year. Did It Last?
… Time and data allow us to examine the stability of Americans’ racial attitudes. One key question: Did George Floyd’s death catalyze support for Black Lives Matter? If so, for how long and for whom? Though there is, in the data, reason for some optimism, the more general picture contradicts […] Read more »
Axios-Ipsos Poll: No faith in equal justice
Solid majorities of Americans across all racial groups do not believe either the police or the criminal justice courts treat all people equally, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll. … The poll shows a resounding lack of confidence in the basic principle of equal justice under the law — a […] Read more »