1/n While non-whites are destined to soon comprise a majority of self-identified Democrats... 
2/n...White dems are remain more politically active across the board--with no sign that such disparities will close. The most important gaps are observed for donations and contacting elected officials.
3/n I say important because such activities are a primary means of communicating political preferences to one's political representatives. The likely upshot is that white dems will become a minority that exercises disproportionate political influence over the party.
4/n To illustrate the potential effects of such disparities, let's compare the immigration attitudes of 'active' whites with their active and non-active counterparts (for the items I used construct this measure, see the pic on your right).
5/n As you can see, 2018 white democrats who reported giving political donations and contacting elected officials have significantly greater permissive immigration attitudes not only when compared to 'inactive' white and non-white dems, but even active non-dems
6/n As I noted in my first TabletMag piece, the differences in political engagement still hold net of SES controls, such as income and education. But there's another reason why white dems might be more politically active...
7/n As I've suggested in earlier threads, the acknowledgment of white privilege, and 'wokeness' more generally, affects white political attitudes and behavior in ways that it doesn't for non-whites. Some evidence for this provided below.
8/n As shown, with one exception, the predicted odds for each political engagement item are largely the same for whites/nonwhite dems until we get to those who 'strongly agree' to the white privilege statement. At that point, white dems become significantly more likely than..
9/n non-white dems to report engaging in the listed activity. Importantly, the gap is greatest for the most impactful of political activities: campaign donations and contacting public officials.
10/n A recent MTurk study (degruyter.com/view/j/for.201…) found that roughly 1 in 2 white liberals indicated that their awareness of privilege influences their political behavior. Similarly, I argue that...
11/n privilege awareness--and the moral emotions (guilt, shame, anger etc.) and perceived responsibility that often attends it--serves as an added 'fuel' for white dem/liberal political engagement (as well as the adoption of progressive policy positions).
12/n Finally, the data here should give some pause to those who downplay the prevalence or impact of 'wokeness' on the contemporary democratic party. For it's the white 'woke' dems who currently an outsized share of the political heavy-lifting.
13/n In addition to higher rates of donations and contact with elected officials, white dems are also disproportionately active on social media (btw, the items I used to construct the political social media index can be found below). This is significant as...
14/n a recent study (cambridge.org/core/journals/…) reported strong evidence that what is discussed or shared by partisans on social media uniquely influences the issues that members of Congress speak to (in short, they help 'set the agenda')
15/n All told, even as their percent of party voters shrinks, white dems/libs should continue to command disproportionate influence over the party for the foreseeable future.
The End.
The End.
I now realize that I should have controlled for citizenship/immigrant generation in the second graph. I was going to create another, but the results are almost identical when adjusting for it, so I'll just leave it as is.
