New study in American Economic Review shows shift of southern whites from Democratic Party to Republican Party was entirely due to racial views, not economic policy attitudes.

Paging @KevinMKruse. https://t.co/T84KbT0Xvn

— Andrew Whitehead (@ndrewwhitehead) July 7, 2018

Seeing a lot of responses to this in the vein of “yeah, duh!”

And sure, yeah, duh.

But as you know from my feed, lots of people deny this and every bit of pushback is welcome, especially from other academic fields. https://t.co/FacpTrwp85

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 9, 2018