Rashawn Ray featured in Vox on how black males vote in the presidential campaign
Jane Coaston, a senior politics reporter for Vox with a focus on conservatism and the American right, recently published an article explaining why there is such a huge gender gap in black views on Trump, as a poll by WSJ/NBC shows that while 24 percent black males "approve Trump's efforts in office," only 6 percent black women agrees.
Faculty Associate Rashawn Ray, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland who has written extensively on how black men vote, told Coaston, “Black men, particularly the 16 percent of college-educated black men who voted for Trump in 2016, are driven by their views about the economy, business growth, and religion. Some black men think that more progressive Democratic candidates are too liberal and they might simply not trust other candidates.” He added that those men weren’t impacted by the “same concerns” as a majority of black women.