When the Fair Housing Act first came into effect in the late 1960s and early ’70s, a substantial share of white Americans supported the kind of discrimination the landmark law made illegal. They believed that whites had a right to keep blacks out of their neighborhoods. They said in surveys […] Read more »
Democrats increasingly think the Confederate flag is racist. Republicans don’t.
… Mass politics has become more polarized by racial attitudes because of Barack Obama’s rise. As I show, the election of President Obama helped usher not a post-racial but a “most-racial” political era. Racially liberal and racially conservative Americans are now more divided over a host of political positions — […] Read more »
Bernie Sanders Could Win Iowa And New Hampshire. Then Lose Everywhere Else.
… I estimate that 54 percent of the voters in the New Hampshire Democratic primary were white liberals in 2008. That’s the second-highest figure in the country, after Vermont (59 percent). In the Iowa caucus, meanwhile, white liberals made up 50 percent; that put the state in a tie with […] Read more »
Democrats’ Views on Confederate Flag Increasingly Negative
As South Carolina officials prepare to vote to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds, a diminished majority of Americans, 54%, down from 59% in 2000 and 69% in 1992, now view the Confederate flag as “a symbol of Southern pride” rather than “a symbol of racism.” Democrats’ […] Read more »
Why blacks see Dylann Roof as a terrorist and whites don’t
In the two weeks since a gunman walked inside a historic black church in Charleston and, after some prayer, shot and killed nine people, two competing narratives about what happened have emerged. Was the shooter a terrorist? Or was he simply a lost and animus-filled individual who committed a one-off […] Read more »
Majority sees Confederate flag as Southern pride symbol, not racist
American public opinion on the Confederate flag remains about where it was 15 years ago, with most describing the flag as a symbol of Southern pride more than one of racism, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. And questions about how far to go to remove references to the Confederacy […] Read more »