TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Dentler, Klara
A1  - Gschwend, Thomas
A1  - Hünlich, David
T1  - A swing vote from the ethnic backstage: The role of German American isolationist tradition for Trump's 2016 victory
JF  - Electoral Studies
N2  - We question the growing consensus in the literature that European Americans behave as a homogenous pan-ethnic coalition of voters. Seemingly below the radar of scholarship on voting groups in American politics, we identify a group of white voters that behaves differently from others: German Americans, the largest ethnic group, regionally concentrated in the ‘Swinging Midwest’. Using county level voting returns, ancestry group information from the American Community Survey (ACS), current survey data and historical census data going back as early as 1910, we provide evidence for a partisan and a non-partisan pathway that motivated German Americans to vote for Trump in 2016: a historically grown association with the Republican Party and an acquired taste for isolationist attitudes that mobilizes non-partisan German Americans to support isolationist candidates. Our findings indicate that European American experiences of migration and integration still echo into the political arena of today.
KW  - Ethnische Gruppe
KW  - Isolationismus
KW  - Trump, Donald
KW  - Präsidentenwahl
KW  - Republican Party (USA)
KW  - Internationale Migration
KW  - Assimilation <Soziologie>
KW  - ancestry
KW  - American politics
KW  - swing vote
KW  - German Americans
KW  - European Americans
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-103662
SN  - 0261-3794
SS  - 0261-3794
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102309
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102309
IS  - 71
SP  - 16
S1  - 16
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -