As the Supreme Court prepares to release its decisions on affirmative action later this summer — likely ruling that the 14th Amendment and Civil Rights Act bar “the use of racial preferences by public colleges and universities” — a new poll from the Pew Research Center sheds light on Americans’…
As the Supreme Court prepares to release its decisions on affirmative action later this summer — likely ruling that the 14th Amendment and Civil Rights Act bar “the use of racial preferences by public colleges and universities” — a new poll from the Pew Research Center sheds light on Americans’ views on the subject.
There is a 29-point gap between approval and disapproval among whites, a 15-point gap among Asians, and an equal proportion of approval and disapproval among Hispanics. Black Americans are the only group whose plurality approves of affirmative action — but it does not even reach 50%. A 2019 Pew survey found that 73% of Americans said they believed race should play no role in admissions decisions — including 62% of blacks. And a poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago in 2018 found that “72% of U.S. adults oppose giving preference to Black Americans in hiring and promotion.”
It asked the question and then added at the end that the goal of considering race is to “increase racial and ethnic diversity at the school.” So the question essentially included the argument in favor of the policy it was asking about.
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