Trump against the tide (Opinion)
Trump against the tide (Opinion)
- May 31, 2018
- Research by Michael Tesler, poli sci, in The New York Times, May 31, 2018
Immigration in essence is an issue that hinges on race. White conservatives vote on
race. As Michael Tesler, a political scientist at the University of California at
Irvine, put it in The Washington Post in November 2016: “Racial attitudes became strongly
connected to whether whites identified as Democratic or Republican during Barack Obama’s
presidency. That, by itself, meant that racial attitudes would matter a great deal
in 2016 — even above the powerful impact of partisanship itself.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/opinion/trump-liberals-emancipation-future.html.
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