Support for Arab-American internment correlates with partisanship, religiosity, and TV news consumption.

Evidence

Think of it: 60 years after World War II, every third non-Arab American one might come across in a random public place in America wants to round up their Arab-American compatriots in a concentration camp, and almost half want Arab Americans considerably restricted in ways other US citizens are not (the numbers are significantly higher for Americans who are Republican, strongly religiously inclined, or watch television news). — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 463

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the moral-panic amplification literature on mass media and minority scapegoating.