Predicting Party ID by Race

This post will analyze how numerous variables correlate with party ID both in the US population at large and within each major US racial group. Several points will be made. First, variation in many variable impact White people's party ID more than non-Whites. Second, finding single variables, or combinations of variables, which take on values …

Race and Political Ideology

In this post, I am going to look at racial differences across a wide range of policy issues, both in the US and globally. In large part, I am going to be arguing against a view I used hold which says that there are large policy-preference differences between racial groups that are reasonably reliable across …

The Myth of European Assimilation

Sometimes, a narrative is told about American history that goes like this: in the 19th and 20th century the US received a huge number of European immigrants. Initially, they had high levels of crime and poverty, and reliably voted for the democrat party. With time, these groups economically assimilated into country, deemphasized their ethnic origins, …

Deconstructing the White Vote

In this post, I am going to try and show that the White vote is more heterogeneous than often thought, or, at least, a lot more heterogeneous than I used to think it was. If you look at Whites as a whole, we look to be pretty consistent republicans: In a previous post, I documented …

Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion: a Critique

In this post, I am going to critique the literature linking ethnic diversity to low levels of social cohesion. The Putnam Study Putnam (2007) is easily the most often cited paper to show that diversity negatively impacts communities. Putnam shows that participants from more diverse regions reported lower levels of social capital, the degree to …