Over time racial conservatism got rebranded as economic conservatism in surveys.

Evidence

Kousser (2010) argues that growing social desirability of progressive racial views may mean that in more recent years racially conservative whites merely adapt the language of economic conservatism. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 210

Categorization

• QUESTION: Raises measurement-validity threat for the whole income-vs-race horserace literature; the reader testing privilege-threat should weigh this coding concern.