Yesterday, working with a team of 15 researchers, we collected data from the participants at the #MarchOnWashington. In the end, we collected data from 277 participants who were randomly sampled in the crowd a #thread 🧵 (photo by @stsumej ) 
Lots of people (and the media) have been focusing their attention on calls to #DefundThePolice. Here's a new piece by @mayaaking at @politico: politico.com/news/2020/08/2…
However, our data on the #MarchonWashington show that participants were much more concerned about race-based health disparities (like #COVID) and race-based poverty than about police reforms (though they also got a good deal of attention). @SociologistRay
Like we have found at previous #protests after the killing of #GeorgeFloyd, very few participants in the #MarchOnWashington were satisfied with #Democracy in America and more than half believe that some level of political violence is justified at this point.
21% of participants identified as being politically moderate or on the political Right. However, ZERO participants said they would vote for President Trump; 100% reported that they would be supporting @JoeBiden in #Election2020.
Like all of the other #protests where I have collected data since the inauguration in 2017, there were more women than men in the crowd and they were highly educated: two-thirds had a BA or higher.
The #MarchOnWashington had the highest percentage of Black participants of any march where I have surveyed (47%). Like other #protest events where I have surveyed since #COVID began, participants were relatively young. The median age was 31 and 25% of the crowd was under 25.
Many thanks to the research team who met at the crack of dawn on a hot and stuffy August day in #DC including @sohananasrin @stsumej @andreactually (anyone who knows other members' handles, please add them here)!!
Clearly, there's lots more to say, but I'm going to go have breakfast with my kids (so, that's it for now)!
Forgot to add, here's a heatmap of where respondents traveled from to participate in yesterday's #MarchOnWashington:
