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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Left behind?, part 2

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 After I finished my last post, it occurred to me that if people in rural areas felt "left behind," that should lead to a decline ...
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Saturday, July 27, 2024

Left Behind?

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 A few weeks ago, the New York Times had an article on rising support for the National Rally in rural France, which it said was due to a fe...
Monday, July 15, 2024

The elites vs. the public?

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A negative view of "elites" has become a central part of American conservatism.  It was always present to some degree, but it used...
Monday, July 8, 2024

Vice-precedented

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Since becoming vice-president, Kamala Harris hasn't been very popular with the public--but how much of that is the result of her own qua...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Could it have been worse?

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Among people who viewed Thursday's debate, 60% thought that Trump won and only 21% thought that Biden won .  In this post, I look at pop...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Who are they talking about?

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 A recent  survey by RMG Research which is billed as "a first-of-its-kind look at the views of the American Elite " defines "...
Friday, June 21, 2024

The problem is you?, part 3

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 This is a return to the analysis of the geographical origins of people involved in the Jan 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol.  My  original po...
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David Weakliem
I was a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut from 1994 until my retirement in 2021. I am editor of the journal Comparative Sociology. My new book, Public Opinion, was published by Polity in 2020. Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences was published by The Guilford Press in April 2016.
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