GoKawiilStudy measures scope and drivers of white nationalist sentiment among US whites
Researchers analyzed a 2021 survey of 3,227 non-Hispanic white Americans conducted through the Cooperative Election Study (CES), a major academic polling platform run via YouGov. The team purchased questionnaire space across five CES modules to examine how demographic traits, partisanship and geography relate to support for white nationalist views. Respondents were drawn from an opt-in panel weighted to approximate a nationally representative sample of US adults.
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Measuring support for white nationalism is notoriously difficult because respondents may conceal stigmatized beliefs even in anonymous surveys, so this large-scale, methodologically rigorous dataset offers rare quantitative insight into how widespread and predictable such attitudes are. Understanding the political and demographic correlates of these views can inform researchers, policymakers and civil society groups tracking extremism and polarization in the United States.
- The study used CES data covering 3,227 non-Hispanic white respondents surveyed in November 2021.
- Researchers bought space across five CES modules to reach roughly 5,000 respondents overall.
- Sampling and weighting methods approximate national representativeness but can't fully verify honesty on stigmatized attitudes.
Source: nature.com — Egan, 2026-09-16
Published there as: “Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States”
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