Honestly this was a very hard paper to write in midst of everything that’s been happening here… deportation is truly an inhumane policy…

I think this is what people in privileged positions don't "get" (or try to get)

Toni Morrison: "The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work."

Meritocracy is a form of system justifying ideology. Extending recent work on SJT by @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social, we found that stronger endorsement or meritocracy predicted more support for deportation and less worry about deportation for both Latinos and Asian Americans

The first of the two is a collab with political scientist Nathan Chan. We used two waves of CMPS data (including the latest 2024) to examine relationship between meritocracy and deportation sentiments among Asian and Latino Americans
osf.io/preprints/ps...

It’s usually the latter 🥹

I wouldn’t go with clustering SEs because you’re then treating the clusters as spatially independent of each other. I’d instead use LM diagnostics to see if you have lag or error dependence, or both.

My preferred view is that public is center-left on policy & representation but center-right on symbols & orientations. Other common alternatives are (1) public is centrist if measured properly, (2) public is center left but bigotry moves right, & (3) Dems strategy is bad/unlucky

You and me both, buddy 😎🥹