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Not Just White Soccer Moms: Voting in Suburbia in the 2016 and 2020 Elections

Ankit Rastogi, Michael Jones-Correa
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2023, 9 (2) 184-203; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.08
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