Roy Moore’s decisive victory over Luther Strange in the Republican Senate primary runoff on Tuesday in Alabama confirms — as I have reported before — that many Republican voters have a strong sense of white identity, that they harbor high levels of racial resentment and that they sometimes exhibit authoritarian […] Read more »
The NFL Protests May Be Unpopular Now, But That Doesn’t Mean They’ll End That Way
… We don’t have any polling specifically about Trump’s recent NFL comments, but a Quinnipiac University poll from 2016 found that only 38 percent of those surveyed approved of players choosing not to stand during the anthem. But while these NFL protests may be unpopular right now, particularly with white […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ Poll: Americans Pessimistic on Race Relations
Seven-in-10 Americans view race relations in the United States as poor — nearly matching the record high, according to a new poll from NBC News and The Wall Street Journal. CONT. Carrie Dann, NBC News Read more »
Whites Have Huge Wealth Edge Over Blacks (but Don’t Know It)
Psychologists at Yale recently asked hundreds of Americans these two questions: For every $100 earned by an average white family, how much do you think is earned by an average black family? For every $100 in wealth accumulated by an average white family, how much wealth has the average black […] Read more »
Among White Americans, Limits to Empathy for Poverty-Related Issues Run Along Class Lines
A survey released today by PRRI finds that white Americans’ support for policies to address poverty is limited in different ways by education level—by perceived social distance to racial minorities among non-college-educated whites and by lower commitments to equal opportunity among college-educated whites. The survey was conducted by PRRI, a […] Read more »
Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center for Politics finds that while there is relatively little national endorsement of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, there are troubling levels of support for certain racially-charged ideas and attitudes frequently expressed by extremist groups. The survey also found […] Read more »