… We know that racial disparities exist: By almost every measure of well-being, black people as a group in the United States fare worse than white people do. But how people feel about race and racism, particularly between black and white Americans, is complicated. … The General Social Survey (GSS) […] Read more »
Republicans Tread Carefully in Criticism of Confederate Flag
The massacre of nine African-Americans in a storied Charleston church last week, which thrust the issues of race relations and gun rights into the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, has now resurfaced another familiar and divisive question in the emerging contest for the Republican nomination: what to do with […] Read more »
Dylann Roof reportedly wanted a race war. How many Americans sympathize?
Dylann Roof has confessed to the murder of nine people at a South Carolina church Wednesday, according to officials. And one of Roof’s friends has said that Roof wanted to start a race war — the kind of sentiment that’s common in the avowed white supremacist crowd. But just how […] Read more »
The Second Roundtable on the White Working Class
Welcome to the second white working class roundtable, a project of The Democratic Strategist in collaboration with the Washington Monthly. … The present White working class roundtable is organized around a provocative strategy paper by leading opinion analyst Stan Greenberg that is entitled “The Fight for Working People Begins with […] Read more »
Views of Race Relations as Top Problem Still Differ by Race
Black Americans’ mentions of race relations as the most important problem facing the U.S. reached 15% in the last quarter of 2014, up from 3% at the beginning of that year. Mentions have remained relatively high since, averaging 13% in the most recent quarter, from April to June 2015. Since […] Read more »
Multiracial in America: Proud, Diverse and Growing in Numbers
Multiracial Americans are at the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the U.S.—young, proud, tolerant and growing at a rate three times as fast as the population as a whole. As America becomes more racially diverse and social taboos against interracial marriage fade, a new Pew Research Center […] Read more »