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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks @rcenteno.bsky.social! Let us know if you have any thoughts!

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

This is part of a larger book project with @mfroman.bsky.social tentatively titled Making Americans: The Racial Politics of Reproduction. We welcome any and all feedback on the project as we move forward with additional studies.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

Bottom line: White backlash to demographic change is not only about who enters the country, but also who is born into it.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

Our findings show:
🔹 Demographic change can shift even “fixed” attitudes like abortion.
🔹 Reproductive politics isn’t just moral or religious—it’s racialized.
🔹 White backlash may increasingly target reproduction, not just immigration.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

We refer to this logic as racialized Malthusianism: the fear that out-groups will reproduce, erode in-group dominance, and reshape the political/racial order. This connects contemporary “Great Replacement” rhetoric to a longer history of racialized population control.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

We replicate with experiments: When prejudiced Whites are primed to think about population growth, their support rises for assuring Latina women---but not White women---have access to abortion, contraception, and sterilization.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

Across large-N surveys and original data, we find:
➡️ Whites in places with more Latino growth are more supportive of legal abortion.
➡️ This effect is absent among non-Whites.
➡️ It’s driven exclusively by Whites higher in prejudice.

plot showing relationship between demographic change and support for abortion among different racial and ethnic groups

plot showing relationship is almost exclusively driven by prejudiced whites

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

We test whether prejudiced White Americans support abortion as a means of limiting non-White population growth.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

Most research on White backlash to demographic change focuses on immigration. But today, the U.S. is diversifying less through immigration and more through non-White births.

plot showing switch from immigration-led to birth-led demographic change from 1970s to 2020

young people are decreasingly white and increasingly latino

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Aug 26

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#NostalgicDeprivation in Europe 🇪🇺

These authors (🧵⬇️) look at impact of #NostalgicDeprivation on support for #PopulistParties across both Eastern and Western Europe 🌍 linking populist attitudes and voting.

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Nostalgic deprivation and populism: Evidence from 19 European countries

JEREMY FERWERDA, JUSTIN GEST, TYLER RENY

ow.ly

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · Aug 6

My coauthor on this project, Marcel, has a much more comprehensive thread on our new paper if you want to read through!

Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · Aug 6

New article out (w Marcel R, Ben N, and David S) in @pnas.org. We show that young folks who signal interest in becoming cops hold more conservative views on race, multiculturalism, gender, and sexuality, etc.than their peers intending careers in other fields www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Late adolescents entering college intending a career as police officers hold more right-leaning views than their peers | PNAS

One longstanding explanation for bias and excessive force in policing is selection—the assertion that those who select to work in law enforcement a...

www.pnas.org

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · Jul 1

The impossible has become possible: we've passed a clean CEQA infill exemption. This is probably the most important thing California has done on housing in the present YIMBY moment.