Sides, Vavreck and I found in a 2021 working paper that perceived anti-white discrimination increasingly predicts public opinion of people and policies connected to the former president, like Pence or repealing the Affordable Care Act. In fact, white grievance politics now explains more than just vote choice. Those views have only grown more pronounced in Republican politics.įor example, the chart below, which draws on data from the American National Election Studies, shows that support for the Republican presidential candidate has steadily grown by 12-to-15 percentage points since 2012 among white Americans who think there’s at least a moderate amount of anti-white discrimination in the U.S. One survey conducted shortly after the election found Trump voters were over four times more likely than Clinton voters to say white Americans face “a lot” of discrimination (45 percent versus 10 percent, respectively) other polls also consistently showed that Republicans and Trump’s 2016 supporters saw racial discrimination against white people as a bigger problem than unfair treatment of racial and ethnic minorities in American society. In fact, perceived anti-white discrimination powerfully predicted voter preferences in the 2016 general election. After all, many of the same grievances helped fuel Trump’s rise.įrom the earliest days of his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump’s support has been most heavily concentrated among white Americans who think they face significant racial discrimination.
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Increasingly, the Republican base is politically animated by white racial grievances, which is a major reason why misrepresentations of critical race theory - “ every white person is racist” or “ certain children are inherently bad people because of their skin color” - have found such a receptive audience. Similar legislation has been introduced in over a dozen other state capitols.įew Americans can define what critical race theory actually is - an academic framework that originated among legal scholars in the 1970s to help explain how racism permeates American institutions - but it’s not surprising that it has emerged as a bogeyman on the political right. According to a July report from the Brookings Institute, eight states (Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, Arizona and South Carolina) have passed laws banning critical race theory-related content from being taught in schools. The attacks aren’t merely rhetorical, either.
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