The Economics of Racial Animus: How Economic Anxiety Conditioned Racial Attitudes in the 2016 Election*

• In Event: American Politics in the Age of Trump

Brief Overview

I argue economic anxiety leads to differing responses to racial diversity among whites. Those who expected a loss in income were more likely to express negative racial affect when their counties were more diverse, those who did not were less likely.

Author

• Spencer Lindsay, University of Notre Dame