ABC News' FiveThirtyEight publishes article on 'Why racist White voters often favor Black Republicans'
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ABC News' election coverage subset FiveThirtyEight is facing backlash over an article attempting to explain why "racist White voters favor Black Republicans."
"But supporting a Black candidate hardly precludes voters from harboring racist beliefs and motivations. Republicans are increasingly more likely than Democrats to hold prejudiced views of minorities, so Black Republicans like Sears often draw especially strong support from [W]hite Americans with otherwise anti-Black views simply because they draw most of their support from Republican voters," Jefferson and Tesler wrote.
The professors cited data from the 2016 presidential election cycle they say has a positive correlation between "prejudiced" White voters who supported Dr. Ben Carson in the GOP primary and the belief that "Black Americans have too much influence on U.S. politics," showing that those who believed Black Americans had "far too little" influence were widely in favor of Hillary Clinton.