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News of the political movement known as the alt-right has sparked considerable debate in recent weeks, with President-elect Donald Trump drawing criticism for naming a senior adviser who is associated with it<\/a> and media outlets wrestling with how to define and refer to it<\/a>. Most Americans, however, haven\u2019t heard of the movement at all.<\/p>\n\n

A majority (54%) of U.S. adults say they have heard \u201cnothing at all\u201d about the \u201calt-right\u201d movement and another 28% have heard only \u201ca little\u201d about it, according to a new Pew Research Center survey<\/a>. Just 17% say they have heard \u201ca lot\u201d about the movement.<\/p>\n\n

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Liberal Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are far more likely than other Democrats to have heard about the movement. Two-thirds of liberal Democrats (66%) have heard a lot or a little about it, compared with fewer than half of conservative or moderate Democrats (39%) and just four-in-ten Republicans and Republican leaners overall (40%).<\/p>\n\n

Among those who say they have heard \u201ca lot\u201d or \u201ca little\u201d about the alt-right, roughly a third (34%) associate the movement with \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d or \u201cwhite nationalism.\u201d That was the most common answer provided in an open-ended question asking respondents about their impressions of what the movement stands for, ahead of \u201cracism\u201d or \u201cprejudice\u201d (14%) and \u201cextreme right-wing movement\u201d (12%).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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There are stark partisan differences in impressions of the alt-right movement. Democrats (47%) are nearly three times as likely as Republicans (17%) to say the movement stands for \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d or \u201cwhite nationalism.\u201d Democrats are also more likely than Republicans to associate the movement with \u201cracism\u201d or \u201cprejudice\u201d (18% of Democrats, 10% of Republicans). By contrast, Republicans (8%) are more likely than Democrats (less than 1%) to describe the alt-right more generically as a \u201cconservative movement\u201d and are more likely to decline to volunteer a response at all (39% vs. 21%).<\/p>\n\n

Aside from the sizable partisan gap in awareness of the alt-right movement, there also are educational differences. About three-quarters (76%) of those with postgraduate degrees say they have heard a lot or a little about the alt-right, with 39% saying they have heard a lot about it.<\/p>\n\n

Most college graduates (61%) also have heard at least a little about the alt-right, but there is less awareness of the movement among those with some college experience but no degree (42%) and those with no more than a high school education (34%).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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