White Americans Largest Recipient Group of Medicare and Food-Stamps...
Wonkblog - White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says.
The study, conducted by researchers at two California universities and published Wednesday in the journal Social Forces, finds that opposition to welfare programs has grown among white Americans since 2008, even when controlling for political views and socioeconomic status.
White Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs, the study says.
The findings suggest that political efforts to cut welfare programs are driven less by conservative principles than by racial anxiety, the authors conclude. T hat also hurts white Americans who make up the largest share of Medicaid and food-stamp recipients.
President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have proposed deep cuts to both programs (emphasis mine).
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| The demographics of welfare recipients in three federal programs. (Sources: Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services, Kaiser Family Foundation) |
White Americans called for deeper cuts to welfare programs after viewing charts that showed they would become a racial minority within 50 years. They also opposed welfare programs more when they were told that people of color benefit most from them.
“We find evidence that these shifts [in sentiment against welfare programs] are specifically directed at programs people see as benefiting minorities instead of whites,” she added.
Wetts isn’t ruling out the possibility that alternate factors could also be at play, of course. Some researchers have found that people embrace more conservative politics during periods of rapid social change -- not necessarily because they fear their racial status is threatened, but because they fear change is happening too fast. Others have argued the connection between white Americans’ racial resentment and their politics has been exaggerated.
But there's a growing body of evidence to suggest that white Americans who fear a loss of racial status are driving major shifts in policy and politics. A major study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April concluded that President Donald Trump was voted into office by people anxious about rising racial diversity and globalization.
Sometimes it is admidtedly difficult to understand the mentality of White Americans. This study points out the reality that fear is a strong social motivator . Ignorance can be as well.
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Les... to me, this isn't surprising, given that white folks make up the largest single demographic in America. Perhaps seeing these numbers on a per capita basis might be more enlightening.
ReplyDeleteThat is probably true Dave. However for me anyway it highlights the fear people (all) generally have with change. Which is heightened as we grow older.
DeleteImmigration and globalisation is why tRump is sitting in the People's chair in the People's Oval Office. He played to the fear of both immigration and globalisation. He won.
Les... there is a lot of reality to what Trump has said. American factories have closed down since NAFTA. Globalism has harmed maybe not America, but Americans who now are largely employed in lower paying service jobs, as opposed to manufacturing jobs.
ReplyDeleteThat hurts economically. It's just a fact.
As for China, they do have the jump on us related to the opening of their market. By law, for us to sell there, a company must give the Chinese government the technological rights to the product. How is that good for America?
For us to sell a US made cell phone there, to their billions of customers, we must tell China how to make the phone. That's just stupid. But we do it, and we've done it for years.
Then they reverse engineer it and make for substantially less than it costs to make it here. And we lose out.
So I guess I want to say this... that fear that he is stoking is real. People who used to have stable jobs now worry if tomorrow their company will close not because of lost sales, but because it's cheaper to make the goods elsewhere.
How do we protect good paying US jobs? That's the central question. We all will not do tech jobs. There are a lot of blue collar people here in the US that generally want to work hard, make enough to care for their family and get a new car every few years and stay out of debt.
But it seems out of reach of most and the government seems to be ignoring this reality.
At the very least, because of Trump, folks are having this conversation.
True enough, and thank you for pointing those facts put Dave. Now, why doesn't tRump talk more about exactly how we are going to rebuild the infrastructure we have frittered away? What are his plans? We cannot compete on the global scale because US wages and benefits are extremely expensive when compared to say China, South-east Asia, South America, etc.? Now, with globalization in full swing tRump decides to starts a trade far with our European Allies (EU) which will likely drive costs up for Joe six-pack. Among a myriad og other negatives.,
DeleteI get what you are saying. But as a retired business manager I also understand a wee bit of the reasons we are were we are today as well as the great pain involved to accomplish what tRump sugar coats for his base.
I SIMPLY DO NOT TRUST tRump. He is a PLUTOCRAT and a liar that refuses to be truthful. He can go to hell for all I care.
Another thing Dave, tRump wants to partially dismantle the social safety net. Something that will hurt is base more than it will hurt you and me I think.
DeleteA lot, probably the majority, of the disappearance of industrial jobs is due to automation, not jobs moving overseas. Many new jobs have been created by Japanese and European car manufacturers opening plants in the US (with bulky and expensive-to-ship products, it makes sense to manufacture them near where a lot of the customers live). Trump is just stoking xenophobia as a political tactic.
DeleteAlso, the population of China is 1.4 billion. There are a lot of customers there (albeit mostly poor by our standards), but not "billions".
But Les, they don't seem to care. They don't believe in most of it anyways. They believe they need to sacrifice for the betterment of America. We'll see where it goes the 6.5 years.
ReplyDeleteYup, they believe. That's for sure.
ReplyDeletetion USAJune 1, 2018 at 9:47 AM
ReplyDeleteA fish rots from the head down. America elected a GREAT STINK and as a result it is rotting from its titular head down.
YOU SHOULD KNOW. AS YOU STINK ALL OVER
RN... are the WYD sock puppets bored now that they can’t post there? Are they unable to read and understand English? Maybe we should deport them for failure to comprehend.
ReplyDeleteYou’ve asked numerous times, as has FT for people to stay on message and deal with the post. Yet these clearly challenged folks are unable to do so here, or at Free’s place forcing both of you to spend extra time taking out the garbage.
You’ve got to wonder what their grades were in elementary school...
Yeah, with WYD apparently out of business folks like JL (probably someone's sock puppet) must be beside themselves, not having a sewer to regularly drop their comments in and all.
DeleteBTW Jack, I find your taking the time to copy and paste a comment of mine, made on another weblog, a compliment.
As for your screaming conclusion? Amusing Jack, childlike even.
Perhaps off topic trolls will eventually just give up and fade away if they are ignored long enough Dave.
Send them to Bad Harvest. They should be right at home there. Or Stormfront, if it's still up somewhere.
DeleteDidn't know there was a site named Bad Harvest.
DeleteThat's an idea, post links to make it easy for them to be directed to places they'll find their kindred spirits. They would no doubt appreciate the service and perhaps leave without comment... I can dream can't I?
I guess you're not familiar with the "redboard" discussion-forum subculture. Here's Bad Harvest. I'm posting it in hopes that some of your trolls will be drawn to it, like flies to a turd. If you choose to take a look yourself, beware -- you will actually feel IQ points dropping off as you read that garbage.
DeleteDamn, you're right Infidel. That garbage is so representative of the rightwing troglodytes that have 2 or 3 functioning brain cells.
DeleteGot out of that place damn quick.
If you Liberals really, and I mean REALLY want a better America, then I suggest that you stop the hatred, because hatred is really the root of most of our problems. We can't really even talk to each other anymore, even within our own families without arguing, and hating one another. Has it ever occurred to anyone, for instance, that our hateful society is breeding the kids that go on shooting sprees? I really think that America's biggest problem is its hateful people. Just look at the last 2 weeks of the hateful TV celebs, how they couldn’t even express their feelings without throwing out insults.
ReplyDeleteWe see so much Haters, within the Black Lives Matter bunch, antifa,, the media press, the NY times, the View, Hollywood, and TV personalities such as Whoopi, Behar, and Mahr, . the hate everywhere you look these days.
We have become a nation of people who despise one another. And even worse, we've been like this for so long that it appears we've literally lost the capacity to communicate effectively. We're more divided now than ever. Shaw hates Who's Your Daddy, and everybody hates Shaw.
And for this, I mostly blame Obama
The hate originated on the right. As soon as Obama was elected there was a ton of stuff like this, lies about Obama being born in Kenya, etc. Trump rode that hatred into power and it's the only thing keeping his support going. If some of us have started hating you back, it's long overdue.
DeleteHate Infidel destroys the self IMO while giving the true haters what they desire. Rather than hate all I feel for individuals like DF is disdain, pity, disrespect, and amazement at their total lack of self awareness.
DeleteLike everything else in human biology, the capacity for hate is born in us for a reason. There are situations where it's an appropriate response. Not many, but they exist.
DeleteInfidel... didn't the whole birther lie begin with the current president?
Deletedidn't the whole birther lie begin with the current president?
DeleteHe was certainly one of the main people promoting it -- long before he became President of course.
"Shaw hates Who's Your Daddy, and everybody hates Shaw.
ReplyDeleteAnd for this, I mostly blame Obama"
This was written by a concern troll worrying about so much hate in American political life.
Really. The far right trolls have absolutely no self-awareness. And they support Don the Con.
Need we say more?
Sometimes I find myself wondering if individuals like DF and others of his ilk aren't just spouting this s*it to get everyone fired up so they can chuckle at it all. Then I return to reality, shake my head, and simply accept that there really are such self unaware as**oles in this country.
DeleteActually, we hate WYD because the great majority of ppl who post there, including Lisa, lie, traffic in false and alternative facts, spew racist garbage and seem incapable of carrying on a decent conversation with cussing and offensive language.
DeleteAnd the great majority have no idea what they are talking about.