White Americans who regularly get their political news from Fox News show much higher levels of support for the Great Replacement Theory than those who do not watch the network. By tracking individual viewers over time, researchers found that increases in viewing specific television programs on this network corresponded with an elevated belief in this conspiracy theory. These findings were published in the journal PS: Political Science & Politics. The Great Replacement Theory is a xenophobic framework with origins in right-wing French political thought. It proposes that powerful elites are deliberately relaxing immigration policies to flood the United States with foreigners. Adherents believe these undocumented immigrants will serve as an obedient voting block to keep progressive elites in power indefinitely. The theory claims this process will ultimately replace native-born white citizens and strip them of their political, economic, and cultural dominance. Historically, these demographic fears existed isolated on the obscure margins of political discourse, largely confined to extremist websites. In recent years, high-profile conservative figures have brought these concepts out of the shadows and straight …