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SUBMITTER: Hill SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6911220 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hill Seth J SJ Hopkins Daniel J DJ Huber Gregory A GA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20191119 50
Immigration and demographic change have become highly salient in American politics, partly because of the 2016 campaign of Donald Trump. Previous research indicates that local influxes of immigrants or unfamiliar ethnic groups can generate threatened responses, but has either focused on nonelectoral outcomes or analyzed elections in large geographic units, such as counties. Here, we examine whether demographic changes at low levels of aggregation were associated with vote shifts toward an anti-i ...[more]