Framing Category

Cultural threat

4,151 mentions across 76 congressional sessions

Partisan sentiment over time

Share of cultural threat-framed mentions by sentiment, per session — stratified by party

Target groups over time

Share of cultural threat-framed mentions by target group, per session

Immigrants General Chinese Specific Other Asian Undocumented Immigrants European Refugees Mexican

Mentions over time

Cultural threat mentions per 1,000 speeches analyzed, per session — stacked by party

Geographic distribution

Total cultural threat-framed mentions by state, 1873–2025