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Divided We Stand

Divided We Stand
New book about the 2020 election.

Sunday, July 2, 2023

Affirmative Action and 2024

 As we note in Divided We Standthe defeat of California's Proposition 16 was the most underreported political story of 2020. Like most other Americans, California voters oppose race-based college admissions

Hannah Demissie at ABC:

A majority of Americans approve of the Supreme Court ruling restricting the use of race as a factor in college admissions, though the country is more divided on other high-profile rulings and increasingly viewing the court as driven more by politics than the law, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos' KnowledgePanel.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court set new limits on affirmative action programs in cases involving whether public and private colleges and universities can continue to use race as one factor among many in student admissions.

A little more than half of Americans – 52% -- approve of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on restricting the use of race as a factor in college admissions, while 32% disapprove
and 16% saying they don't know.