Replying by email to my inquiry, Hetherington wrote:In 1992, those whites scoring at the top of the authoritarianism scale split their two-party vote almost evenly between Bush and Clinton (51-49).
By 2012, those high authoritarianism white voters went 68-32 for Romney over Obama.
In both Trump elections it was 80-20 among those voters.
So from 50 Republican-50 Democrat to 80 Republican-20 Democrat in the space of 24 years.
The two authors analyzed data from seven studies conducted by the World Values Survey in 76 countries between 1981 and 2022.
Persons:
Marc Hetherington, ”, Hetherington, Clinton, Romney, Obama, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Dan Medvedev, Jackson, Medvedev
Organizations:
University of North, Chapel Hill, Trump, Republican, University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business
Locations:
United States, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, University of North Carolina, Bush