b'Lets Play the Race Card Again: Was There a Relationship between Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 Election and Color-Blind Racism?Kiana T. JohnsonSponsor: Dr. Bernard Tamas, Department of Political ScienceAccording to Los Angeles Times, a Former Republican Governor of Virginia once said, The tactic was simple: Lace your speeches with coded appeals to racists in Southern states. . The intended target of the message the racist voter understood completely, while leaving the politician plausible deniability with non-racist voters. This paper examines whether there is a relationship between the tenets of color-blind racism and support for President Donald Trump during the 2016 election. Using data from the SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election ICPSR 36853 and the four tenets of color-blind racism identified by Bonilla Silva, I analyze the historical and social context of racial and ethnic statistics and compare them to the results of the 2016 Election. The results concluded that there is a significant correlation between support for President Trump and ideology that endorses color-blind racism. Additionally, the results indicated that Clinton supporters tend to be strongly neutral on topics that involve abstract liberalism.Voter Turnout CloutDominique N. LebbySponsor: Dr. Bernard Tamas, Department of Political ScienceIn this paper, I study why voter turnout in the African American populations has shown an increase over the years 1952-2012 in presidential elections. African Americans were not granted the right to vote until 1870 when the 15th amendment was enacted by congress. Even with the right to vote African Americans were threatened by white males. Claiming that if they even stepped foot at a polling station they would be punished for their actions. Many African American males avoided the polls to avoid being harmed. That same unwillingness to vote is seen today in African Americans of all ages, but data suggest that between the years 1952-2012, voter turnout has not been stagnant nor decreasing, but that it has been increasing since 1948. I will explain that Descriptive representation and political efficacy are among the many reasons for the increase in voter turnout for minorities and the decrease is attributed to voter suppression especially in southern states.83'