Race-versus-income analyses measure relative explanatory power by decade, not decomposed shares

Evidence

Note that they are not decomposing what share of the change is explained by income versus racial views, but instead estimating which factor has greater explanatory power, separately by decade. β€” Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 211

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Black economic inequality relative to whites remained structurally fixed across multiple decades β€” John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3351; The racial wealth gap persists independent of income, savings, and education attainment β€” Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1375

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