Four in ten Americans say they've never experienced racial discrimination
Core finding
A quarter of Americans (25%) say racial discrimination has left them anxious around certain people, and about as many say it has made the world feel like an unsafe place, according to a December 2025 Verasight survey of 1,000 U.S. adults.
Similar shares say those experiences have made them easily annoyed or irritable (23%), afraid that something awful might happen (21%), or isolated from others (19%), and 12% report excessive worrying they struggle to stop or control. Meanwhile, 41% of Americans say they have never faced racial discrimination at all.
Topline distribution
Four in ten Americans say they've never experienced racial discrimination.
Thinking about all the racial discrimination you have experienced in your life, which of the following have you felt because of those experiences?
n = 1,000 · Dec 3–8, 2025 · MoE ±3.2%
Methodology
Full methodology →| Mode | Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting |
|---|---|
| Population | US adults age 18+ |
| Field dates | Dec 3–8, 2025 |
| Base (unweighted) | 1,000 |
| Margin of error | ±3.2% |
| Module | soc_pol |
| Sponsor | Verasight |
| Weight variable | weight |
| Weighting targets | age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status |
Sources
- reports.verasight.io/r/verasight-human-v-synthetic
Thinking about all the racial discrimination you have experienced in your life, which of the following have you felt because of those experiences?
Cite this question
Verasight Human/LLM Comparison Survey #2025-172, fielded December 3-8, 2025, N=1,000 US adults age 18+, +/- 3.2%.