White racial resentment has remained remarkably stable over time. But that racial resentment has become much more highly correlated with particular political attitudes, behaviors and orientations. But racial resentment now more closely predicts all other political opinionsBut that doesn’t necessarily tell us whether racial resentment has become more or less politically powerful or influential. Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency further strengthened the relationship between racial resentment and political attitudes. But our research suggests that while Trump’s racial rhetoric has been unusually explicit, he did not create the connection between white Americans’ racial attitudes and their political opinions.

Source: Washington Post January 15, 2018 17:56 UTC