Reading path

Race and ethnicity

9 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.

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Fifty years of racial attitudes
Chapter 5.1 in Part V, Race and racial attitudes
Among white respondents, equal-treatment answers rose from the 1970s to the 2000s, answers on discrimination and on government help rose between the 2014 and 2016 surveys, more among Democrats than among Republicans, and the tie between racial resentment and the Republican presidential vote changed by +1.1 points from 2008 to 2012, with an interval whose upper end is 4.6, and by +8.2 from 2012 to 2016.
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Racial attitudes and ideology
Chapter 5.2 in Part V, Race and racial attitudes
Among white non-Hispanic ANES respondents, the correlation between racial resentment and conservative self-placement rose from +0.27 in 1986 to +0.66 in 2024, and most of that rise is between the parties rather than among people who share a party.
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Racial attitudes after George Floyd's death
Chapter 5.3 in Part V, Race and racial attitudes
How much did measured racial attitudes move in the weeks after May 25, 2020, and how long did the change last?
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Policing
Chapter 5.4 in Part V, Race and racial attitudes
When did attitudes toward the police become a partisan divide?
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Hispanic, Black and Asian voters
Chapter 3.4 in Part III, The party coalitions
How did Hispanic, Black and Asian voters' presidential choices move between 2008 and 2024?
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Religious tradition and race
Chapter 9.3 in Part IX, Religion and morality
In 2024 white born-again Protestants voted 14.5% Democratic and Black Protestants 83.1%, and attendance relates to the vote by +9.5 points among the first and +0.8 points among the second, so the pooled attendance gap combines groups with different gaps.
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Education, ethnicity and the county shift, 2016 to 2024
Chapter 12.7 in Part XII, Demographic axes of the vote
In 2020 to 2024, counties with more Hispanic residents moved further toward the Republicans than other counties did (vote-weighted correlation −0.66, against +0.45 in 2012 to 2016), while the correlation with college share fell from +0.69 to +0.02.
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Rural counties
Chapter 12.5 in Part XII, Demographic axes of the vote
How different are white-majority rural counties from Black Belt and Hispanic rural counties?
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Counties where donors and voters diverge
Chapter 14.7 in Part XIV, The money map
Across counties, donors lean left where the Democratic vote is higher (correlation −0.85, weighted by votes), and 74 of the 98 Democratic-voting counties with right-leaning donors are at least 30% Black.
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