A few years ago I read a passing mention of the @ncgop expelling Black members around 1904, but it's been difficult to confirm details. Here's a chart from a recent paper that looked at census data to confirm the race of GOP convention delegates from former slave states. #ncpol

just posted: the 2020 - 2022 CES recontact survey. a representative sample of 11,015 American adults interviewed in 2020 and then again in 2022. can you think of any better way to spend your long weekend?
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Emory University political scientist Bernard Fraga has been named a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, one of 28 scholars nationwide who will explore political polarization as well as what might help tackle division and strengthen American democracy. links.emory.edu/Wo

This past semester I was tasked to teach a course on Data Science for Economist at Emory Economics

Some of the materials I have used in the course can be found here: psantanna.com/Econ520/

I‘ve leveraged a good amount of work from the greats Grant McDermott (@[email protected]) and Tyler Ransom

'In the 2022-2023 academic year, the share of African American tenure-track faculty only increased to 7.9 percent for assistant professors, 5.2 percent for associate professors, and 3.5 percent for full professors.'

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nytimes.com/2024/05/18/us/… Maya King Rick Rojas Leslie Palomino

BREAKING: In Louisiana's congressional redistricting fight, the Supreme Court is pausing for now a three-judge court’s order that blocked the state from using a map passed in January with two majority-Black districts for this year’s elections documentcloud.org/documents/2466…

Excited that “Partisans of Color: Asian American and Latino Party ID in an Era of Racialization and Polarization” was conditionally accepted American Political Science Review.

Authors: Me, Jessica Lee (UCLA PhD, Poli Sci) + Gustavo Mártir (UCLA PhD student, Psych).

cc: Gustavo A. Mártir Luna

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Yeah, I think this is one of those things where there's a huge gap between how people think turnout works (and how I thought it worked!) and how it actually does work, per the voter file. x.com/xenocryptsite/…

Happy heavenly 80th birthday to voting rights champion, Willie Velasquez, Jr.

His work focused on registering and mobilizing Latino voters, starting in his home state of Texas. He is known for his rallying cry, “su voto es su voz,” meaning ”your vote is your voice.” 🗳️

📹: PBS

***Academic Job*** I'm hiring a post-doc (starting this fall) as part of building out a lab model re: conflict and development at Emory. Open broadly but Asia is bulk of agenda right now. ABDs & recent grads please submit apps by June 15th apply.interfolio.com/145540

My new open-access paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives argues that the radical 2020 Census disclosure control program was an embarrassing failure. /1
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#OpenAccess from American Political Science Review -

Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of #Populism - cup.org/4a8QgdU

- Bernard L. Fraga, Yamil Ricardo Velez & Emily West

#FirstView

Our team is back at it with another paper on the Census Bureau's privacy protections. We use the noisy measurements file (a privatized output for the decennial census) to evaluate both the new and old approaches to privacy (TopDown and swapping).

America was built on civil disobedience.

It is possible to hold the line against violence and intimidation while insisting on protesters' rights -- and being curious enough to absorb what they're telling us that we may be too jaded to hear.

FULL VIDEO: the.ink/p/on-civil-dis…

In case you missed me: wuft.org/heard-on-wuft-…

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Law enforcement arrested 28 individuals, including 20 Emory University community members, during this morning’s pro-Palestine encampment on the Quadrangle, Emory Vice President for Public Safety Cheryl Elliott wrote in a University-wide email this evening. emorywheel.com/police-chief-c…

We the undersigned Georgia legislators are deeply alarmed by reports of excessive force used by Georgia State Patrol in responding to community members protesting on the campus of Emory University this morning. 1/ #GAPol