https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12/06/pre-election-research-shows-disturbing-trend-among-republicans/
Pre-election research shows disturbing trend among Republicans
By: Marty Schladen - December 6, 2024 4:50 am
Public opinion research conducted in October shows a shift in one political party that might make Donald Trump’s election on Nov. 5 less of a surprise. A majority of the party now agrees with a sentiment about immigration that has previously been associated with organized hate — that they are “poisoning the blood of the country.”
While October marked the first time respondents were asked that question, responses to others indicated a hard shift against immigrants by Republicans and white evangelical protestants — especially after Trump became president.
The Public Religion Research Institute is a nonpartisan group that studies political issues alongside religious values. Since its founding in 2013, it’s conducted its American Values Survey and done more than 200,000 interviews in the process.
Among its most recent findings was a 50-point gap between Republicans and Democrats over how pressing an issue immigration is for the country. And there now is a huge difference between the parties about whether undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria should be offered a path to citizenship.
In 2013, 71% of Democrats and 64% of independents believed a path to citizenship should be offered. The percentage for Democrats rose to 77% by October, while it fell to 55% for independents.
But for Republicans, the change was far more dramatic.
In 2013, most Republicans — 53% — believed that qualifying people should be offered a path to citizenship. As of October, just 36% did.
At a recent conference in Washington, D.C., Public Religion Research Institute Founder and CEO Robert P. Jones said that support for a path mostly held steady for Republicans between 2013 and 2019, “then it begins to drop, then it just fell off a cliff beginning last year.”
Jones said the partisan disparity indicates that we’ve entered a new era when it comes to the politics of immigration.
“This is a very, very different world than we were living in even 10 years ago,” he said.
Perhaps not surprisingly, there is a religious element to the disparity.
White evangelical protestants make up the only major religious group that does not have a majority supporting a path to citizenship. That support has fallen from 53% in 2013 to 40% now.
The Public Religion Research Institute survey seemed to find an element of hatred in some of the opposition to allowing more undocumented immigrants to become citizens.
“There were a number of questions that, as a social scientist, I found myself having to ask that I never thought I’d have to ask,” Jones said of the most recent survey.
One was prompted by Trump’s statement a year ago that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” The statement has ominous implications because Adolph Hitler, who murdered 6 million Jews along with millions of other targeted groups, made several versions of the statement, including that a male Jew “poisons the blood of others…”
In the survey, Jones asked, “Do you agree or disagree that immigrants who are entering the country today are poisoning the blood of our country?”
A full 34% of Americans agree.
“There is a gigantic partisan gap on this question,” Jones said.
Almost two-thirds of Republicans — 61% — 33% of independents, and just 13% of Democrats agreed that immigrants are poisoning the blood of a nation of immigrants.
Jones, who holds a Ph.D. in religion, said that so many Americans agree with such a statement should concern everyone.
“A racist and hate-filled conception of immigrants has really taken hold with a significant minority of the population,” he said.
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Just to be clear, the answer to the topic question is clearly "Republicans and white evangelical protestants".
@Suzianne saidyou racist POS!
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12/06/pre-election-research-shows-disturbing-trend-among-republicans/
Pre-election research shows disturbing trend among Republicans
By: Marty Schladen - December 6, 2024 4:50 am
Public opinion research conducted in October shows a shift in one political party that might make Donald Trump’s election on Nov. 5 less of a surprise. A ...[text shortened]... clear, the answer to the topic question is clearly "Republicans and white evangelical protestants".
@Mott-The-Hoople saidTalk to the hand, jackass.
you racist POS!
Doesn't all the blame-shifting tire you out?
@Mott-The-Hoople said"What we've got here is failure to communicate.
your racism does…tired of you fuked up people dividing the country
Some men you just can't reach.
So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it.
Well, he gets it.
And I don't like it any more than you men."
Suzianne, you're a racist pig, and it didn't take you long to zero in on a like-minded racist writer.
There are three things conservatives fear with this unfettered ILLEGAL immigration
1) It is ILLEGAL, you racist, anti-American fool
2) It costs $$100K per illegal immigrant per year, and with 9 million brought in under Biden, that's $900 BILLION per year
3) The last 3 presidential elections were settled by 3 million, 7 million and 3million votes.
And we have 20 million illegal immigrants waiting to vote DEMOCRAT and tip any election into democrat favor.
And *that*, my little racist pig, is NOT going to happen.
Oh, and have a nice day
@Mott-The-Hoople saidStupid people only end up calling themselves out.
no, what we have here is you squealing like a pig when you get called out.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidWho exactly is dividing your country up?
your racism does…tired of you fuked up people dividing the country
You seem awfully quick on the draw to blame democrats.
How does polarisation work, do you think?
And when a country is polarised, how do you make it less so?
Do you think that what you say makes it more so or less so?
