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      Race and the Tea Party in the Old Dominion: Split-Ticket Voting in the 2013 Virginia Elections

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      PS: Political Science & Politics
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          In 2013, Virginia Republicans nominated two Tea Party conservatives for statewide office: Ken Cuccinelli and Earl Walker Jackson, Sr. They differed in two significant respects: (1) Cuccinelli has more political experience, and (2) Cuccinelli is white and Jackson is black. For this article, we used this quasi-experimental opportunity to examine the racial resentment explanation for Tea Party support. We found no evidence of voting patterns consistent with this characterization of Tea Party supporters. There was no significant gap between Tea Party support for Cuccinelli and Jackson, and Tea Party supporters were far more likely to cast ballots for both candidates than they were to choose one or the other. In fact, we found that racial resentment is positivelyassociated with support for Jackson. In this election, neither Tea Party support nor racial resentment negatively affected support for the black Republican candidate for lieutenant governor.

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                Journal
                applab
                PS: Political Science & Politics
                APSC
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                1049-0965
                1537-5935
                January 2015
                December 31 2014
                : 48
                : 01
                : 107-114
                Article
                10.1017/S1049096514001632
                86cd7938-d19d-4094-9934-cdd28dd91605
                © 2014
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