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Back to the Black Belt: Racial Environment and White Racial Attitudes in the South
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In this study, I look at the relationship of black population and white racial attitudes in the contemporary South. Merging county-level census data with individual-level N.E.S. data from the 1980s to create a variable tapping "racial environment," I also use this study to test the validity of a group conflict theory of racial-political attitudes. I find that racial environment has a strong and consistent effect on racial-political attitudes, but little-to-no effect on measures of prejudice. Moreover, this racial environment effect is pronounced among those most affected by black political progress (southern Democrats evaluating Jesse Jackson). Contrary to a symbolic racism approach to the study of racial-political attitudes, these three findings support the contention that threat, in the form of group conflict, influences political positions on racial issues.
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- Authors
- Glaser, J. M.
- Venue
- The Journal of Politics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1994-02
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 21-41
- ISSN
- 0022-3816 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2508
- OpenAlex
- W1988874185
- Cited by
- 457
- References
- 28
- FWCI
- 33.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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