Party or Ideology? Anti-Immigrant Attitudes Among Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans

• In Event: 30420 - Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 minute): Table 8: Racial Politics, Whitelash

Abstract

In the decades following the civil rights movement, scholars of race, politics, and public opinion coalesced around the belief that increased racial diversity would lead to a progressive sea-change in political attitudes. Instead, the opening decades of the twenty-first century have seen a revived conservatism among non-white Americans and declining power among the Democratic Party. Domestic economic decline and global migration flows have bolstered these trends, while also leading to a renewed appeal of nativism and xenophobia in mainstream circles. Given the concurrent shift in the boundaries of whiteness and ethno-nationalist identities, this study considers Americans’ anti-immigrant attitudes based upon their political affiliation and ideologies. Using new data from the American Mosaic Project (AMP) survey fielded in 2024 before the presidential elections, the authors find tight coupling between political ideology and political party identification and anti-immigrant attitudes among white people, but that this is a looser relationship among racial minorities.

Authors

• Shania Kuo, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Daniel Cueto-Villalobos, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Doug Hartmann, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities