The New White Flight: Are White Democrats Turning on Presidential Candidates Due to Latino Outreach?
November 13, 2019
he paper, published in September in the journal Political Behavior, argues efforts to court Latinos drove white Democrats to reassess their position relative to the U.S. political parties. The author, University of Michigan assistant professor of political science Mara Cecilia Ostfeld, says this could be a watershed moment in U.S. politics. Generally, as whites are moving to the right of the political spectrum, racial and ethnic minorities support the left.¶¶”There is a new racial alignment occurring as the country becomes more politically polarized and there are shifting social identities,” Ostfeld said.