Research indicates that Latinos have particularly strong pro-environmental attitudes and support for policies to reduce climate change. This study explores differences in climate change activism (i.e., contacting government officials) between Latino and non-Latino White citizens in the United States, and the individual and social factors that predict engagement. CONT. Anthony […] Read more »
Trump’s Wall Could Cost Him in 2020
President Donald Trump may now be talking more about steel than cement, but his proposed border wall remains the Rosetta Stone for understanding both his conception of the presidency and his political strategy. Nothing better illustrates Trump’s political calculus than his determination to build the wall, a goal that most […] Read more »
White right? How demographics is changing US politics
Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University When Donald Trump was campaigning to become the U.S. president, much of the discussion about his growing popularity focused on so-called “angry white males,” who had been struggling through years of declining economic opportunities. Their frustration led some of them to adopt and espouse white […] Read more »
GOP Insists It Doesn’t Engage In Identity Politics. Researchers Disagree
Donald Trump has had success at using identity politics. Ohio’s Mahoning Valley is a place where a conservative version of identity politics — tied to race and class — is flourishing. CONT. Asma Khalid, NPR News Read more »
White Identity Politics Aren’t Going Anywhere
… As the Democratic Party has evolved from an overwhelmingly white party to a party with a huge minority base, the dominant strategic problem has become the tenuous balance between the priorities of its now equally indispensable white and minority wings. President Trump has aggressively exploited Democratic vulnerabilities as no […] Read more »
Three profoundly dangerous myths about the 2018 elections
In the days immediately after the 2018 elections the most widely circulated analysis held that along with high turnout among minority voters the significant Democratic gains in the House of Representatives and in a range of state level elections were the result of the significant defection from the GOP of […] Read more »