It's been almost half a year since I joined @goodauth.bsky.socialgoodauthority.org/people/alexa...
I've also written explainers on obscure but useful academic concepts that even @vox.comgoodauthority.org/news/good-to... If there is any other topic you want me to cover, let me know!
To make sense of public opinion and voting behavior, you have to understand sociotropic politics. Here's what you need to know.
Thanks to @johnsides.bsky.social, I was also able to track down the partisan differences in immigration opinion based on Gallup's longest-run series. This is the best evidence I've seen that D & R voters did not disagree on the issue until 2001 or even 2014 really:
One thing I did was add uncertainty to the commonly used Gallup numbers about the change in public opinion. Folks often get into heated discussions about why support for a certain policy dropped by 3%, but such small differences are often not meaningful:
I've written about the great post-2020 reversal of US positivity toward immigration, about why voters and politicians resist freer immigration even on the left, and why governments are becoming hostile to international students despite their benefits: goodauthority.org/news/why-ame...
No government can take public trust on immigration for granted. So what's behind the recent shift in U.S. views on immigration?