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What accounts for the widespread support for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, forthcoming
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The threat of increasing diversity: Why many White Americans support Trump in the 2016 presidential electionīrenda Major, Alison Blodorn & Gregory Major Blascovich These results indicate that Asian candidates in America face a set of racial-political stereotypes that are unique to their racial subgroup. My experimental results mirror my observational results, which show that Asian Democrats are significantly advantaged even when compared with whites. I find that, contrary to expectations, Asian candidates are not significantly disadvantaged from being immigrant and foreign born. In my experiments, I find that Asian candidates do significantly better than white candidates across different biographical scenarios (conservative, liberal, and foreign). This paper explores the candidacies of Asian Americans with an experiment run through Amazon Mechanical Turk as well as real-world evaluations of Asian American candidates using the Cooperative Congressional Elections Study. It is less clear how racial stereotypes may change the fortunes of Asian candidates. Racial stereotyping has been found to handicap African American and Latino candidates in negative ways. Political Research Quarterly, forthcoming Asian Candidates in America: The Surprising Effects of Positive Racial Stereotyping