Chryl N. Laird

Chryl N. Laird

Speaker Profile

Chryl N. Laird is associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland College Park.

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    Ideas Podcast: Steadfast Democrats, Five Years Later. Steadfast Democrats, Five Years Later An innovative explanation for why Black Americans continue in political lockstep, Steadfast Democrats sheds light on the motivations consolidating an influential portion of the American electoral population. Read More
    Chryl Laird. PUP Speaks: Chryl Laird on the social experiment that helped her understand Black voters Steadfast Democrats聽author聽Chryl N. Laird聽explains what a social experiment taught her about the way group behavior of Black voters is shaped by social networks.聽锘� Read More
    Ideas Podcast | Episode 1 | Why are Blacks Democrats? | Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird Why are Blacks Democrats? Black Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats鈥攁 surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less than 1... Read More
    African American children in front of a voter registration table. Why are Blacks Democrats? African Americans are Democrats. Since 1968 no Republican presidential candidate has received more than 13% of the African American vote and surveys of African Americans regularly show that upwards of 80% of African Americans self-identify as Democra... Read More
    Hands pattern The roots of Black political unity On December 12, 2017, the state of Alabama held a special general election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The race, which had Republican Roy Moore running against Democrat Doug Jones, had already captured national... Read More