The tip of the ethnic bloc vote? Ethnic minorities go away after Brexit vote
By Nicole S. Martin and Maria Sobolewska, College of Manchester
The 2016 referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) led to a realignment of voters alongside their referendum place (Fieldhouse et al. 2021; Sobolewska and Ford 2020). In December 2019, each the Conservative Get together and the Labor Get together acquired roughly 80% of their assist from voters who had been on “their” aspect through the referendum (Fieldhouse et al. 2021). Brexit identities have been associated to partisanship with affective polarization and perceptual screening (Sobolewska and Ford 2020; Sorace and Hobolt 2021). Analysis additionally traces the Brexit vote to a rising values divide (Evans and Menon 2017), with ethnocentric attitudes discovered on reverse sides of the referendum (Sobolewska and Ford 2020). The views of ethnic minority voters, as conventional victims of white ethnocentrism, have been extensively seen on this debate as the identical because the id of liberal Remainers. Regardless of the idea that minorities would naturally fall on the aspect against white ethnocentrism, the referendum marked the largest departure from the standard ethnic minority bloc vote since 2005, when a big minority of Muslim voters left Labor over the Iraq struggle ( Curtis, Fisher). and Steed 2005). The Depart aspect within the 2016 referendum acquired roughly a 3rd of the vote from ethnic minorities (Martin, Sobolewska and Begum 2020), regardless of Depart additionally drawing a majority of its assist from “UKIP-curious” voters (Evans and Mellon 2019) , who had voted for or thought of supporting the anti-immigrant radical proper United Kingdom Independence Get together.