Education increases ideological consistency without displacing racial attitudes.

Evidence

The data support hypothesis 7 quite well, then. The ordering of predictive power among these various predispositions is quite parallel among college-educated and noncollege-educated whites: symbolic racism in particular, and racial attitudes in general, are considerably stronger than are nonracial predispositions even among the collegeeducated. Moreover, all these predispositions together account considerably better for policy preferences among the college-educated: as Table 20.8 shows, in each case the total r-squared is almost twice as high as it is for the less educated. There is no evidence that a college education leads to a replacement of racism by ideology as the key determinant of these policy preferences. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3734

Categorization

• QUESTION: If education raises total r-squared for all predispositions combined, does that mean education mainly increases consistency-making broadly rather than tolerance specifically? This challenges the civics-education model of prejudice reduction.
• SEED: Angle for an essay or op-ed: ‘Why college didn’t cure racism’ — the empirical case that political sophistication hardens rather than dissolves prejudice’s grip on policy views.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3734
• XREF: connects to: Decades of ideological re-education failed to erase Eastern-border revisionism in East Germans — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 388; College education does not replace racism with ideology in racial policy preferences. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3734