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📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

Thanks @rcenteno.bsky.social! Let us know if you have any thoughts!

This is part of a larger book project with @mfroman.bsky.social tentatively titled Making Americans: The Racial Politics of Reproduction. We welcome any and all feedback on the project as we move forward with additional studies.

Bottom line: White backlash to demographic change is not only about who enters the country, but also who is born into it.

Our findings show:
🔹 Demographic change can shift even “fixed” attitudes like abortion.
🔹 Reproductive politics isn’t just moral or religious—it’s racialized.
🔹 White backlash may increasingly target reproduction, not just immigration.

We refer to this logic as racialized Malthusianism: the fear that out-groups will reproduce, erode in-group dominance, and reshape the political/racial order. This connects contemporary “Great Replacement” rhetoric to a longer history of racialized population control.

experimental results

We replicate with experiments: When prejudiced Whites are primed to think about population growth, their support rises for assuring Latina women---but not White women---have access to abortion, contraception, and sterilization.

plot showing relationship between demographic change and support for abortion among different racial and ethnic groups

plot showing relationship is almost exclusively driven by prejudiced whites

Across large-N surveys and original data, we find:
➡️ Whites in places with more Latino growth are more supportive of legal abortion.
➡️ This effect is absent among non-Whites.
➡️ It’s driven exclusively by Whites higher in prejudice.

We test whether prejudiced White Americans support abortion as a means of limiting non-White population growth.

plot showing switch from immigration-led to birth-led demographic change from 1970s to 2020

young people are decreasingly white and increasingly latino

Most research on White backlash to demographic change focuses on immigration. But today, the U.S. is diversifying less through immigration and more through non-White births.

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📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

Nostalgic deprivation and populism: Evidence from 19 European countries JEREMY FERWERDA, JUSTIN GEST, TYLER RENY

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#NostalgicDeprivation in Europe 🇪🇺

These authors (🧵⬇️) look at impact of #NostalgicDeprivation on support for #PopulistParties across both Eastern and Western Europe 🌍 linking populist attitudes and voting.

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My coauthor on this project, Marcel, has a much more comprehensive thread on our new paper if you want to read through!

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

Late adolescents entering college intending a career as police officers hold more right-leaning views than their peers | PNAS One longstanding explanation for bias and excessive force in policing is selection—the assertion that those who select to work in law enforcement a...

New article out (w Marcel R, Ben N, and David S) in @pnas.org. We show that young folks who signal interest in becoming cops hold more conservative views on race, multiculturalism, gender, and sexuality, etc.than their peers intending careers in other fields www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The impossible has become possible: we've passed a clean CEQA infill exemption. This is probably the most important thing California has done on housing in the present YIMBY moment.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

i'm not at all qualified to evaluate this study but i am absolutely going to share it with my students, scared straight style

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Excited and honored to be chosen for an emerging scholar award from @apsa.bsky.social Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB) section this year!

If you haven't gotten around to it, please call your state Senator today and urge them to vote yes on SB 79. This could be transformative for California if it passes and should've been passed back in 2018 when it was first brought up. Don't let the segregationists keep you poor any longer.

I see a lot of confusion about what it means for Republicans to "own" immigration.

Does this mean increasing immigration salience helps Rs on average? Yes.

But does that mean anything Rs do on immigration is popular? Absolutely not.

Folks should remember: issue ownership can be lost.

Stanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fight The president and provost said Harvard’s rejection of government demands was “rooted in the American tradition of liberty.”

Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

every day I wake up and check the news and am madder about the Trump administration than I have ever been and then I have to meet the obligations of my daily life and them the next morning I wake up and check the news and am madder about the Trump administration than I have ever been and then I have