Social Identity, the Vietnam War, and Contemporary Political Divides

• In Event: Identity Politics Across the Subfields Workshop: Identity and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

This paper probes the role social identities play in responding to political upheavals by focusing on responses to the Vietnam War among a cohort of people coming of age at the time.

Authors

• Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Larry Martin Bartels, Vanderbilt University