Southern Democratic senators scored extremely 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
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Ties to the book’s earlier treatment of how Southern Democrats of the era functioned as the authoritarian base within the party.
Related
- Democratic state senators scored remarkably high on authoritarianism (similarity 0.97)
- US Republican legislators scored well above Democrats on authoritarianism (similarity 0.80)
- Low-authoritarian politicians in the South are almost always Democrats (similarity 0.78)