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May 30, 2018 02:58 pm PDT
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White Americans abandoned democracy and embraced authoritarianism when they realized brown people would soon outvote them
A working paper from a pair of political scientists analyzed World Values Survey data to trace the rise of support for authoritarianism in America to a growing sense among white people that democracy's commitment to giving everyone a vote would soon erode their privilege, as the growing population of racialized people started to vote for fairer policies. (more…)
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