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Now out in @apsrjournal #APSRFirstView! Joint with @JamesBisbee, this (unusually for me) is about voters & politicians; specifically, voters' COVID fear-induced ‘flight to safety’, to the benefit of mainstream candidates. 🧵on where this paper came from & why IMO it matters 👇1/ 
It was March 13, 2020. I was home in Dakar; my “cold” had gotten bad. I was having trouble breathing, and indeed getting out of bed. I was reading an NY Times article on possible COVID futures, feeling for the 1st time genuinely scared about what that might mean for us all. 2/
I’ve spent a lot of my life living overseas. But I felt a sudden pull to be back where I still feel most comfortable, back in Detroit, that surprised me; a really strong desire for the familiarity & safety of the known, of where I feel most rooted. 3/
