The Washington Post reported on Friday that a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found decreases in racism among white Americans since the 2016 election, and it might be because of Trump.
“It’s quite conceivable that Trump has simultaneously galvanized a small number of highly prejudiced white Americans while also pushing millions more to affirm that they are not as prejudiced,” political scientist Daniel J. Hopkins told the Post.
The study tracked anti-black prejudice over a 12-year period and found what the Post called “an especially marked drop” between November of 2016 and November 2018, the end of Trump’s first year as president. The study also showed prejudice against Hispanic people saw “a similar decline between Trump’s election and the fall of 2018,” specifically driven by Democrats.
View the complete May 24 article by Oliver Willis on the National Memo website here.