Thread by @jamesrhenson

A look via @bethreinhard & @neenareports at “extremist messaging” from renamed N. Tarrant Tea Party support for Ted Cruz & Ken Paxton
These tendencies are evident among tea party Texans in years of UT/@TexasTribune polling - see thread. [1/x] washingtonpost.com/investigations… #txlege

Signs of racial resentment among Texas tea party voters evident in poll results pre-Trump. In a June '15 UT/@TexasTribune Poll, 62% of tea party identifiers said whites experience either “a lot” (25%) or some (37%) discrimination. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/perception… #txlege [2/x]

Among the same tea party group in the same poll, 8% said African Americans experienced “a lot of discrimination and 34% said “some.” 40% said African Americans experienced not very much discrimination, and 16%, none. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/perception… #txlege [3/x]

If you sort by Republicans who identified with the tea party in the same June 2015 UT/@TexasTribune Poll, results are similar. These are views of all the groups in the battery items, & overall responses among Texas RV’s for comparison. #Txlege [4/x] texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/perception…

FF to June 2020 poll, similar patterns remain among all Tx GOP respondents (we stopped polling tea party item as it became less salient). 14% said African Americans faced a lot of discrimination, 37% some; 34%, not very much, 12%, none. #txlege texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/discrimina… [5/x]

In the same June 2020 UT/@TexasTribune poll, 59% of Texas Republicans said whites faced either “a lot” (24%) or some (35%) discrimination; 24% said not very much, and 14%, none. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/discrimina… #txlege [6/x]

The June '20 battery also asked which group faced the *most* discrimination. Top 3 responses among Republicans: Christians (28%), whites (17%), African Americans (16%). Also included - results by intensity of GOP ID. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/most-discr… #txlege [7/x]

Close out with a look at same June 2020 UT/@TexasTribune poll result from question on who experiences the most discrimination, by intensity of conservatism. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/most-discr… #txlege [8/x] Happy Friday night, all.

Oh, for reference:
Every result tagged with "discrimination" in @TxPolProject poll archive: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/polling/search…
Links to summary, method docs, data files: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/polling-data-a…

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