Democratic identification among Southern whites fell a full 17 percentage points

Evidence

Most important to the question at hand, the entire 17 percentage-point decline in Demo- cratic party identification between 1958 and 1980 is explained by the 19 percentage point decline among Southern whites with conservative racial views. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 82

Categorization

• XREF: Key magnitude anchor: 17 pp total decline fully attributable to conservative-race defection. Gives the reader the empirical scale to compare against other threatened-privilege cases. — connects to: Conservative racial views predicted Democratic identity among Southern whites only before 1963 — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 7; Racially conservative white Southerners abandoned Democratic identification after 1964. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1327; Southern whites opposed to integration were staunchly Democratic before 1964. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1333 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Racially conservative white Southerners abandoned Democratic identification after 1964. #corroborates (0.95) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1327
• Civil-rights-era policy shifts drove southern whites into the Republican Party #expands (0.85) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 105
• Racially conservative whites’ defection drove the Southern realignment #expands (0.82)
• Southern whites opposed to integration were staunchly Democratic before 1964. #expands (0.80) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1333
• Civil rights, not other issue concerns, drove Southern whites’ falling approval of Kennedy #corroborates (0.75) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 634
• Whites’ support for racial equality principles shrank once implementation threatened their own position #complicates (0.75)