Part V
Race and racial attitudes
Racial attitudes changed on different schedules by kind of item and became part of partisan and ideological identity.
This part asks how racial attitudes relate to party and ideology, and on what schedule different kinds of items changed. Racial attitudes and ideology asks how closely racial resentment tracks ideological self-placement and how much of that link runs through party. The planned chapters ask which racial attitudes changed across the survey record, when the later movement began and whether attitudes became more tied to vote choice during the Obama presidency; how much measured attitudes moved after George Floyd's death and how long the change lasted; and when attitudes toward the police became a partisan divide.
Chapters
- 5.1
Fifty years of racial attitudes
Among white respondents, equal-treatment answers rose from the 1970s to the 2000s, answers on discrimination and on government help rose between the 2014 and 2016 surveys, more among Democrats than among Republicans, and the tie between racial resentment and the Republican presidential vote changed by +1.1 points from 2008 to 2012, with an interval whose upper end is 4.6, and by +8.2 from 2012 to 2016.
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Racial attitudes and ideology
Among white non-Hispanic ANES respondents, the correlation between racial resentment and conservative self-placement rose from +0.27 in 1986 to +0.66 in 2024, and most of that rise is between the parties rather than among people who share a party.
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Racial attitudes after George Floyd's death
How much did measured racial attitudes move in the weeks after May 25, 2020, and how long did the change last?
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Policing
When did attitudes toward the police become a partisan divide?
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