University of Maryland Professor: White Rural Voters Are a ‘Threat to Democracy’

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SCHALLER: "I mean, we lay out the fourfold interconnected threat that white rural voters pose to the country. First of all — nd we show 30 polls and national studies to demonstrate this. We provide the receipts in Chapter 6. They are the most racist, xenophobic, ant-immigrant, anti-gay geodemographic group in the country. Second, they're the most conspiracist group: QAnon support and subscribers, election denialism, Covid denialism and scientific skepticism, Obama birtherism. Third, anti-democratic sentiments. They don’t believe in an independent press, free speech. They’re most likely to say the president should be able to act unilaterally, without any checks from Congress or the courts or the bureaucracy. They're also the most strongly white nationalist and white Christian nationalist. And fourth, they are most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful public discourse."