• thejevans@lemmy.ml
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    11 days 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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      11 days 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.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        11 days ago

        Plenty of "progressive" white people still have racist hangups.

        Some of them think they aren't racist when they see the world as a series of tourist attractions and try to flex on their dinner guests by bragging about the authentic exotic experiences they had with authentic foreign people while wandering into tourist traps. maybe-later-honey us-foreign-policy

      • thejevans@lemmy.ml
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        11 days ago

        Oh 100%

        Also, people are influenced by the beliefs of their community, even if they don't agree on everything.