#  Mass Historical Society: Immigration, Race and the Tea Party Movement 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 27, 2015** 

 05:15PM - 07:30PM EDT 

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 **Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215-3695**  



 

 



 

**Luis Jiménez**, University of Massachusetts—Boston   
Comment: **Theda Skocpol**, Harvard University

To what extent has racial anxiety played a factor in the formation of the tea party movement? Previous literature, ethnographic work and anecdotal evidence point to a complex mythology of taxpayers versus freeloaders that appears to not have any empirical basis, but rather rests on racial cues. This paper tests these hypotheses through a number of measures at different levels--state, congressional, and county units. It finds that tea party behavior was more pronounced in states, districts or counties with disproportionate numbers of Latinos, or people perceived as an immigrant other.

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