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AP at UPenn in Political Science

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 26
Thank you!!

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 25
I think so, yuuup! I will say, too, that when we provide a nudge on national Hispanic growth, we see White fight sentiment generated in places with local growth (study 4). But it helps to add to the story here, as we note

Also another piece of mine on this www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy - Volume 23 Issue 1
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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 25
7) PS, if you're curious, reach out to me about post-2024 Election continuation of these analyses. I have a LOT to say, and have even validated the efficacy of White fight sentiment with more recent studies.

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 25
6) Check our sections on "Addressing Caveats and Drawbacks." We unpack quite a bit there.

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 25
5) Black growth on county levels at base drives up White fight sentiment through the prime. Crucially though, when the prime is paired with a discussion of Hispanic growth on a national level, we see upticks of White fight sentiment among White Americans in counties with Hispanic growth too.

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 25
4) Consideration of national racial demographic change, NOT state level, is what generates White fight sentiment. We identify this through a similarly worded prime on state-level changes relative to national-level changes.

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 25
3) We build off of Gordon Allport's Scale of Prejudice and Discrimination to define the concept.
White Flight and White Fight within Allport’s Prejudice Scale. Description: Allport’s Prejudice scale with identification of White flight and White fight within the scale.

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 25
2) Similar conditions that motivated flight now motivate fight:
“There goes the neighborhood” is a historical expression of White reactions to local Black increases, explaining discriminatory reactions in the form of “defended neighborhoods” (56) and for some eventual flight from those locales (57). We ultimately expect that nationally generalized ideas of local demographic changes will cause a similar, but wider-scale reaction along the lines of “there goes the nation.”

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 25
1) Overall, we find that White Americans who live in counties with White American decline or Black American increase *specifically* become more violent and antidemocratic when they receive a simple prime about racial demographic change. We define this as "White fight sentiment."

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · Nov 25
My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Apr 22
“We must reject the coercive use of public research funding.” Over 150 college & university leaders from big and small institutions have signed a joint statement defending the right to speak “without fear of retribution, censorship, or deportation.” 🇺🇸

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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Nov 7
so far the only explanation i've seen that doesn't smack of "if only she'd listen to me she would have won" is "global discontent with incumbents because of inflation and post-pandemic malaise + toxic information environments"