“There is some data indicating that a majority of Republicans express racially prejudiced and Islamaphobic beliefs,” University of California, Irvine political scientist Michael Tesler, the author of the book Post-Racial or Most-Racial: Race and Politics in the Obama Era, wrote to our own Tom Jacobs in an email.

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