ANES race-attitude data gives only one pre-1964 baseline year.

Evidence

The key drawback to restricting ourselves to the cumulative file is that its one question on racial attitudes that spans our two periods provides only a single pre-period year. We thus explore the viability of adding additional data from the individual year files, even though ANES did not deem these questions sufficiently comparable. The closest candidate is a question asked in 1956, 1958 and 1960. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1328

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Only one survey question spans the pre- and post-Civil-Rights eras (similarity 0.82)
• Higher-frequency newspaper data pinpoints the 1963 perception shift the ANES cannot date (similarity 0.80)
• Survey questions deemed comparable still shift meaning across waves (similarity 0.79)
• Gallup surveys dating to 1958 contain untapped racial-attitude and preference data (similarity 0.79)