In 2017, a National Public Radio (NPR) poll found that 55 per cent of white adults believe that there is discrimination against white people in the United States.
Republican and Democratic voters remain at loggerheads over whether people of European descent encounter bias in American society, a Hill-HarrisX poll revealed on Friday.
At least 75 per cent of Republican voters believe that white Americans are subject to discrimination, a view that was shared by only 38 per cent of Democratic respondents. READ MORE: US Secret Service Settles Decades-Old Racial Discrimination Row 62 per cent of them argued that European-Americans face almost no discrimination or none whatsoever.
As far as African-Americans are concerned, 95 per cent of Democrat respondents and 78 per cent of Republicans said that they face discrimination to some degree. READ MORE: Russian Americans Facing Discrimination in US – Congress of Russian Americans
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When asked whether Hispanics Americans face societal bias, 81 per cent of the entire sample said they experience discrimination, a stance that was supported by 92 per cent of Democrats, 76 per cent of independents and 72 per cent of Republicans.
In 2017, a poll released by National Public Radio (NPR) found that 55 per cent of white adults believe that there is discrimination against whites in America, with only 19 per cent of white respondents saying they had personally been discriminated against.Source: sputniknews.com
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