These 2 charts explain how racism helped fuel Trump’s victory

These 2 charts explain how racism helped fuel Trump’s victory
- November 10, 2016
- Michael Tesler, political science, via Vox, Nov. 10, 2016
As UC Irvine political science professor Michael Tesler explains on the Monkey Cage
blog, actual economic difficulty doesn’t seem to increase racial resentment. “Multiple
studies, using several different surveys, have shown that overall levels of racial
resentment were virtually unchanged by the economic crash of 2008,” Tesler writes.
“Some data even suggests that racial prejudice slightly declined during the height
of economic collapse in the fall of 2008.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.vox.com/world/2016/11/10/13587338/president-elect-trump-racism-2-charts.
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