Racial attitudes dominate nonracial factors across all racial policy areas

Evidence

The first goal of this study was to provide a systematic test of the hypothesis that racial attitudes make the pivotal contribution to whites’ opposition to race-targeted policies. The data seem to us quite clear: racial predispositions dominate all other factors in terms of individual correlations or regression coefficients, and in their capacity for explaining variance in policy preferences. Nonracial attitudes (such as political ideology, party identification, social welfare policy attitudes, and such traditional social values as individualism, morality, and authoritarianism) have been as thoroughly controlled for as possible, and they do not have strong effects; they are overshadowed by the effects of racism. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3735 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial attitudes explain more unique variance than nonracial values do; Racial attitudes influence white Americans’ policy and candidate preferences beyond ideology — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3600; Symbolic racism explains racial policy preferences independent of conservatism. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2179 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial attitudes, not ideology or values, drive whites’ opposition to race-targeted policies #corroborates (0.95) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3735