Recent years have seen growing concerns among social scientists about the seeming erosion of democratic norms in the US. In a new study, Andrew Thompson and co-authors examine the influence of white Americans’ sense of racial threat on attitudes towards political violence. They find that when prompted to think about racial demographic change in the US, many white Americans express clear anti-Black, violent sentiments about how the country is changing. He writes that these findings may show that extreme views across the public on race may be more common than many media commentators have thought.
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