RT @algaraca: @leedrutman My friend @IsaacHale & I published a paper on this very topic! Racism distorted rational proximity voting among l…
@leedrutman My friend @IsaacHale & I published a paper on this very topic! Racism distorted rational proximity voting among liberals in a Downsian sense—at multiple ballot levels in 2016 to GOP benefit. Racism weakens Downsian voting, but doesn’t elim
@pdfreshness I’ll list some academic and non-academic sources, there’s also a whole book, America’s Inequality Trap, that discusses this on a 100 year timescale. https://t.co/7xBX9uh301 https://t.co/aqtHxCBcJ8 https://t.co/ITdJKfOi97 https://t.co/cO16w
"We find that racial animus among voters helped Republicans at multiple ballot levels and that higher levels of racial animus distorted spatial voting among voters ideologically closest to the Democratic candidate." https://t.co/QVwuX3yaS5