Blue is Black and Red is White? Affective Polarization and the Racialized Schemas of U.S. Party Coalitions

• In Event: Partisan Stereotypes in the United States

Brief Overview

We argue that objective shifts in the racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. partisan coalitions has led to changes in how they are imagined by the public and that this process is central for political polarization in the United States

Authors

• Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Kirill Zhirkov, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor