Clarence Page on a U of Chicago study on Political violence in the USA
He expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession, which had been the conventional wisdom. Instead, he found most of the people who took part in the assault came from places awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture.
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That would suggest that the Capitol attack had historical echoes reaching back to before the Civil War, he told The Washington Post.
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