• thejevans@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    For those instances, I'd suggest that it has to do with a few factors:

    more rural areas tend to be more right leaning,

    https://source.washu.edu/2020/02/the-divide-between-us-urban-rural-political-differences-rooted-in-geography/

    right leaning people are more likely to be more racist,

    https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/08/12/deep-divisions-in-americans-views-of-nations-racial-history-and-how-to-address-it/

    and right leaning people tend to be more uncomfortable with things they are unfamiliar with

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019188699900135X

    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      I'm sure that is related but as my friends were "progressive" Democrats we might need to use a wider definition of what it means to be right wing. Plenty of "progressive" white people still have racist hangups.