Make America Great Again Woman Trump Supporters
February 5, 2021
New nationwide survey shows MAGA supporters' behavior near the pandemic, the election and the insurrection
A new Academy of Washington study examines the behavior of fervent Trump supporters about the pandemic, the ballot and the January riot at the U.S. Capitol.Blink O'fanaye
In the wake of the Capitol riot and on the eve of sometime President Trump'southward second impeachment trial, new data from the University of Washington reveals the attitudes and behavior that are growing within the Republican Party.
Surveys of hundreds of fervent Trump voters, whom researchers refer to as Brand American Great Once again (MAGA) supporters, reveal potent beliefs that the election was stolen; that COVID-nineteen is a bioweapon from People's republic of china; and that the riot was the work of antifa. The data, nerveless just before and later on the Capitol riot, is believed to be the merely information of its kind, shedding light on MAGA supporters' opinions about race, gender, the pandemic and the 2022 election.
The data also uncovers demographic information that may dispel some myths about hard-cadre Trump supporters: Nearly one-half of MAGA adherents, for example, roughly half earn at least $fifty,000 a yr, considered middle-income by many standards, and approximately one-third have at to the lowest degree a higher degree.
"Right now, these people feel like they're losing their country and their identity. They experience like they're being displaced by communities of color, by feminists and by immigrants. These people are motivated by what they see as an existential threat to their way of life," said Christopher Sebastian Parker, professor of political science at the UW and co-writer of the enquiry.
The results have not withal been peer-reviewed and volition be submitted to an academic journal, Parker said.
The impetus for the study was something Parker and co-author Rachel Blum of the University of Oklahoma have been pursuing in their individual research for years: what drives the Trump fly of the GOP, which in many ways builds on the Tea Political party movement of a decade ago. The two researchers planned an online survey to be administered in late 2020—regardless of who won the Nov election—past placing ads on Facebook, identifying MAGA affinity groups. Virtually 1,500 people completed the survey at the finish of December.
Then, after the Jan. vi riot at the U.Due south. Capitol, Parker and Blum again surveyed respondents who had supplied their email addresses in the first moving ridge of the study, providing rare insight into MAGA supporters' beliefs and perspectives before and afterward that historic issue. This time, about 300 people responded.
"The celebrated nature of the Capitol Riot, and the involvement of MAGA supporters, forced united states of america to re-interview people sooner than we preferred. Merely we needed to capture how the event may accept afflicted their opinions on the country," Parker said.
Results of the Panel Study of the MAGA Motion are grouped by categories: demographics of the respondent and their views on democracy and the election, on the Capitol anarchism, on COVID-xix, and on "difference"—namely, race, gender and other characteristics.
Highlights of the findings include:
- Nearly all (98%) of respondents said they believe Trump's election fraud claims and distrust the actual results of the presidential election;
- About ninety% said voting "shouldn't be easier"
- More than 2-thirds said Trump bears no responsibleness for the events of January. half-dozen – roughly the same pct that laid the blame on antifa
- At least 90% said Trump was honest nearly COVID-19, and that land and local government restrictions related to the pandemic should exist loosened
- Most all said they were concerned that "forces are changing our country for the worse" and "the American mode of life is disappearing"
The findings related to "difference"– race, gender and immigration status — provide an additional lens through which to view the MAGA movement, Parker said.
On race, significant majorities of respondents agreed with statements similar "Black people should piece of work their way upwardly like other minorities" and "Black people would be as well off as white people if they tried." Along the same lines, a bulk disagreed with statements such as "Slavery/bigotry made working up difficult for Blackness people" and "Black people have gotten less than they deserve."
Similar themes emerged in the results regarding women and immigration. A majority of respondents agreed with statements such as "Women translate innocent remarks equally sexist," "Feminists are seeking more power than men," and "Immigration is changing our culture for the worse."
Such statements are a reaction to decades of change, from the civil rights and women's movements of the 1960s, to the election of President Obama and an increasingly multiracial society, Parker said: "Like clockwork, whenever racial progress occurs, it's followed—in brusk guild—by racial retrenchment. Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement, and the election of Barack Obama, are the most prominent examples."
Accessing supporters through affinity groups brutal within a narrow window of opportunity, Parker said, given Facebook's eventual crackdown on posts and pages that promoted baseless and dangerous ideas, and many conservatives' departure to other platforms.
In the second wave of the written report – the mail-anarchism portion – researchers too sought to decide what role race might have played in MAGA supporters' perspectives on events. Parker and Blum devised questions nearly whether the Jan. 6 anarchism was justified based on the idea that the election was stolen. If then, was it because of voter fraud in Pennsylvania and Georgia, or because of voter fraud in Philadelphia and Atlanta, two cities predominantly made up of people of color.
Results showed 25 percent more than of the respondents believed the riot was justified when the cities were mentioned, compared when merely the states were included.
To further highlight supporters' views on the Capitol riot Parker and Blum so created word clouds, based on the themes that emerged when report participants described the events of January. vi. The give-and-take clouds below show the pattern in how MAGA supporters characterized events mostly as "minor," "peaceful," and a "protest" or "rally" (Topic 1) and on the most frequent terms used in explaining the cause of the anarchism (Topic 2).
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- This give-and-take cloud shows that report participants mostly depict the events of Jan. 6 with terms like "protest," "people" and "peaceful."
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- In this word cloud, terms such as "antifa," "BLM" and "Democrats" dominated MAGS supporters' explanation for what acquired the riot.
Parker and Blum note in the study that these responses represented a puzzling mix, in terms of how the Capitol riot is viewed — in some ways as a peaceful protestation of the ballot, only also every bit a riot incited by antifa and Black Lives Matter.
In the end, Parker said, the study shows the popularity of more than extremist views within the Republican Political party, a pattern that dates back to the early 1960s when the political party was divided betwixt the more than reactionary Sunbelt conservatives, and the more establishment East Coast conservatives. The same design is essentially repeating itself. Information technology'south no wonder, he said, that members of the political party are fighting over whether to punish Congressional Republicans who voted for impeachment and/or those who promote conspiracy theories.
"Ane of the two major political parties is essentially captured by these people. They're not going abroad any time soon. They were hither before Trump, and they'll exist here later on Trump," Parker said.
Results of the report, including charts and information on data collection and survey methodology, are available here.
For more information, contact Parker at csparker@uw.edu.
Tag(s): Christopher Parker • Higher of Arts & Sciences • Department of Political Scientific discipline
Source: https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/02/05/new-nationwide-survey-shows-maga-supporters-beliefs-about-the-pandemic-the-election-and-the-insurrection/
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