A new paper by political scientists John Sides and Michael Tesler [UC Irvine professor of political science] adds to this picture. They find liberal racial attitudes among white Democrats peaked in 2020 (when Trump held the presidency) and then fell in 2024 (under Biden). … They asked respondents about a battery of statements about race that have been used for decades to measure what’s often described as “racial resentment.” 

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