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Immigration Status, Immigrant Family Ties, and Support for the Democratic Party

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  • George Hawley

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Objective I test the hypothesis that immigration status itself is a predictor of Democratic Party affiliation and vote choice, even controlling for other attributes. I further test whether having immigrant parents and grandparents has a similar effect. Method To examine these questions, I created single‐ and multilevel models of party affiliation and vote choice using the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. Results Even after controlling for a myriad of individual and contextual attributes, immigration status was a statistically significant and substantively important predictor of Democratic affiliation. This was also true of the children and grandchildren of immigrants, but this effect weakened over multiple generations. Conclusion Immigration status itself appears to be an important determinant of voting patterns, which is highly consequential, given the large and growing foreign‐born population in the United States.

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  • George Hawley, 2019. "Immigration Status, Immigrant Family Ties, and Support for the Democratic Party," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 100(4), pages 1171-1181, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:socsci:v:100:y:2019:i:4:p:1171-1181
    DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12621
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    1. Michael Kwame Dzordzormenyoh & Deion Perkins, 2022. "Immigration in the United States: Exploring the Factors that Predict Public Support for Police Stops Targeted at Illegal Immigrants & Immigrants with Criminal Background," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 1545-1566, September.
    2. Alexandre Padilla & Nicolás Cachanosky & Jonathan Beck, 2020. "Immigration and Economic Freedom: Does Education Matter?," Journal of Private Enterprise, The Association of Private Enterprise Education, vol. 35(Spring 20), pages 29-57.
    3. Richard Hanania, 2021. "Cui Bono? Partisanship and Attitudes Toward Refugees," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 102(1), pages 166-178, January.

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