Kevin Morris

Unless, like me, you find yourself halfway through The Plague

None of this is to say this research doesn't matter. It's important to keep the pipes running and things working. But it's not answering the question of the moment, and you should not frame it as such

Whenever I review a paper that starts by acknowledging that lack of trust in elections is a crisis, and then asks how much letting people look up how long the line at their polling place is before leaving home helps, I die inside a little

As always, we let the questions we ask be conditioned by what's easy to study. But what's easy to study != What matters

This goes for those trying to increase confidence in elections. Letting voters track their ballots (or whatever) pales in the face of elites saying the election is rigged!!!!!!!!!!

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After spending a lot of time in Christian nationalism land research the past few weeks, I'm awful grateful to be a member of a PCUSA church

The Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to decide when the nation goes to war. President Trump’s strikes on Iran are flatly unconstitutional. There’s been no deliberation, no vote, no clear justification. This is a flagrant abuse of executive power.

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Looks like Easter Sunday in here

We're turning people away (fire code) from this anti-ICE training today. New Yorkers are fired up

This is a good question that I'll look into next week!

But your point is well taken and obviously remains understandably messy (my original snarky post notwithstanding)

Yeah it is definitely hard to isolate the "truly" racial part of RR here. But even when you throw in all of those that you mention -- which could be called a general disdain for leftists, etc -- RR sticks around as the most important predictor. (MeToo and climate activists are reverse coded here)

Careful with the interpretation of the racial gerrymandering question: While all these respondents said they primarily identified as White, respondents in those models ALSO identify as either Black or Latino. (I just figured this out)

(With the full battery. Data from 2020 CMPS)

It works equally well with the 4-question battery, but most of the big surveys don't ask all 4 questions (this one happens to)

Yep: "Irish, Italians, Jewish and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same without any special favors" and "Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class"

A number of folks have questioned in recent years whether racial resentment really does capture racial attitudes (or a more general "conservatism") but it consistently predicts attitudes about other racialized concepts in American politics

Fair. It's showing that the single-most-important predictor of whether a White person thinks that the VRA is still necessary is their level of racial resentment. It's the second-most-important predictor of whether they think that cracking minority voters is a neat idea

rAcIaL rEsEnTmEnT dOeSn'T rEaLlY pReDiCt rAcIaL aTtItUdEs

Rest in Piss, voter suppression law.

A brief by Justin Sadowsky for the Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance that (gasp!) actually cites many HISTORIANS on the question of birthright citizenship.

Happy to contribute in my small way to this effort.

At least there's one bit of good news today

Yes. Unilateral disarmament in this environment is a sucker's game

And to be clear before I'm called a hypocrite: the filibuster is bad, and the talking filibuster was better than the current filibuster

a group of men are carrying a coffin and dancing in front of a crowd ALT: a group of men are carrying a coffin and dancing in front of a crowd

Dance on its grave and send it back to hell

SAVE Act is dead

Man, I wish I had this data before going a few rounds with a reviewer on another paper who was concerned that belief in the Big Lie was driving up racial resentment, and not the other way around. Looks like that's not the case!

Mississippi's Black Voters Brace for SCOTUS to Gut Their Political Clout - Bolts Black Mississippians won a key ruling last year in a case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But the U.S. Supreme Court may soon weaken the Voting Rights Act and erase their ...

The reporting that @boltsmag.org is doing on the potential impacts of Callais (the case that could gut the remainder of the VRA) has been very good. You should be reading it!
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