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Matthew Yglesias
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Surprisingly little polarization on this — Republicans warmer on business than Democrats, but tons of overlap in both directions.
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Jan Zilinsky
@janzilinsky
Republicans have warm feelings for right-coded groups (no surprise). But do Democrats wish ill on the rich and successful? Yes, if you read your tweets. No if you poll the silent majority.
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Jan Zilinsky
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Let's compare how partisans feel about: - left-coded groups (environmentalists, BLM, etc.) - right-coded groups (the NRA, the police, Fox News) - the expert class - wealthy people and corporations Affect is polarized the least for the last group
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Jan Zilinsky
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true! a note on the source:
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Jan Zilinsky
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Replying to @cremieuxrecueil and @itaisher
Will look for more recent data. What I posted is based on the survey used in this paper journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108 available here, fwiw: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml;
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Jan Zilinsky
@janzilinsky
I think they have been left-coded for a while. Rather, I was uncertain about “poor people” and “working people”, so didn’t include them in any of the rows. (Open to ideas)
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It's Wilson!
@sophists_choice
Interesting - people recognize that you shouldn't make generalizations about wealthy people as a class, but they don't apply that same logic to, for example, "professors".
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@Michael_E_Lopez
In what universe are journalists anything like scientists? That's like saying you want to measure public opinion about "massage therapists and garbage men".
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