Americans Are More Worried About Terrorism, Race, Immigration Than They Were Last Year Dara Lind - Vox
go to original March 19, 2015

Is America more xenophobic than it was a year ago?

That's the implication of a new Gallup poll tracking which issues Americans are more concerned about now than they were in 2014:

(Gallup)

Add them all together, and you get a national mood of xenophobia and fear — the same national mood that turned the runup to the 2014 elections into a sustained panic over ISIS and Ebola.

What's much harder to parse is how much of this is grounded in reactions to specific news stories, and how much is a general gestalt. How much of the increased concern over "race relations" is a reaction to the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner by police officers, or the killings of police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos? How much of the concern over "terrorism" is a specific reaction to news stories about ISIS?

It's hard to untangle the two. But it's a little easier when looking at changes in public opinion from month to month — which helps show how particular news stories affected the American mood.

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