Posted on 05/31/2018 2:55:02 PM PDT by BBell
White Americans are increasingly critical of the country’s social safety net, a new study suggests, thanks in part to a rising tide of racial resentment.
The study, conducted by researchers at two California universities and published Wednesday in the journal Social Forces, finds that opposition to welfare programs has grown among white Americans since 2008, even when controlling for political views and socioeconomic status.
White Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs, the study says.
The findings suggest that political efforts to cut welfare programs are driven less by conservative principles than by racial anxiety, the authors conclude. T hat also hurts white Americans who make up the largest share of Medicaid and food-stamp recipients. President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have proposed deep cuts to both programs.
“I think our research is very relevant to politics,” said Rachel Wetts, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley and the lead author of the new research. “My main hope here is that people take a step back, look at what these sorts of programs do for the poor, and think about what’s driving opposition to them.”
Wetts and her co-author, Stanford University sociologist Robb Willer, conducted three separate experiments designed to gauge white Americans’ attitudes toward welfare and the factors that influenced them.
In the first, the researchers analyzed 10 years of nationally representative survey data on attitudes toward race and welfare programs. Between 2008 and 2012 in particular, they found, opposition to welfare rose among all Americans -- but far more sharply among whites, who also began scoring higher on racial resentment scales during that period.
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“White Americans are increasingly critical of the country’s social safety net,”
That’s because it’s become a multigenerational hammock. And I’m sick to death of being forced at gunpoint to pay for it.
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I’m sick of being called white America.
"...welfare cuts..."
More and more whites are cashing in on this welfare boondoggle.
Projection.
Two California universities found racial resentment?
Well then. It must be true.
Why do these academic ass-clowns go to so much time and trouble to make up this shizit?
Nobody believe this. Except for BLM racists and SJW snowflakes.
Blacks are 13% of the population yet they consume almost 1/3 of the cash assistance.
Hispanics are less than 17% of th population yet they consume almost 1/3 of the Medicaid budget and 40% of the cash assistance.
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When all else fails, play the rac....
Complete nonsense. I despise white welfare bums, black welfare bums, Hispanic welfare bums, Asian welfare bums, and fictional welfare bums. I also believe (accurately) that welfare hurts the vast majority of those who depend on it, so wanting those people to support themselves is a sign of compassion rather than prejudice.
“I’m sick of being called white America.”
So am I. I’m fed up to my back teeth with it.
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75% of taxpayers...WHITE.
57% of free gov’t goodies....MINORITY....
Commies. Divide and conquer.
Whites were told for 8 years they were a bunch of evil racists, but they know that blacks use public assistance way out of proportion to their population. You think the combination of these two things might cause some resentment?
75% white taxpayers......Whites pay for everyone else..The one area liberals refuse to put racial demographics on...TAXPAYERS
1 - It is RACIST to suggest most welfare recipients are non-white.
2 - It is RACIST to keep people dependent of government handouts rather than motivate them to independence.
3 - It is RACIST to attempt to retain a dependent voter base for the sake of retaining political power.
No, my resentment of welfare is due to it being a scam and subject to massive fraud and political manipulation for more than 50 years.
My white resentment is due to the racist massive bulls**t pumped out by leftist communists daily.
They DO NOT consider Hispanics as “white” Americans although most of them are white.
They LOVE blaming everything on race,it’s their reason for existing.
BAD white men-—GOOD everything else.
This is what you do when you have run out of ideas-—which they have.
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