June 7, 2021
STILL TEA PARTYING:
What an analysis of 377 Americans arrested or charged in the Capitol insurrection tells us (Robert A. Pape, 4/06/21, Washington Post)
Those involved are, by and large, older and more professional than right-wing protesters we have surveyed in the past. They typically have no ties to existing right-wing groups. But like earlier protesters, they are 95 percent White and 85 percent male, and many live near and among Biden supporters in blue and purple counties.The charges have, so far, been generally in proportion to state and county populations as a whole. Only Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and Montana appear to have sent more protesters to D.C. suspected of crimes than their populations would suggest.Nor were these insurrectionists typically from deep-red counties. Some 52 percent are from blue counties that Biden comfortably won. But by far the most interesting characteristic common to the insurrectionists' backgrounds has to do with changes in their local demographics: Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic White population are the most likely to produce insurrectionists who now face charges.
Older, whiter, maler and worried about "the coloreds" getting the welfare money they think only they deserve.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 7, 2021 12:00 AM