Democratic state senators scored remarkably high on authoritarianism

Evidence

One of the Mississippi senators who responded in my 1986 study pulled down a 245. And a Minnesota senator came in at 248. Both lawmakers, incidentally, were Demo- I am not saying the Soviets were the good guys in the Cold War, and the Americans the bad guys. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4437

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates a simple left-right framing of authoritarianism by party line—relevant to refining the vault’s nationalism-authoritarianism claims.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4437