Racial attitudes explain more unique variance than nonracial values do

Evidence

No sustained analysis of why this shift in attitudes has occurred is provided. If the root of the problem is a form of prejudice, then it is difficult to understand why there would be any pressure to change from segregationist attitudes to some newer, more relevant form of voicing an irrational hostility toward blacks. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3423 (#complicates, via linked claim)

My hometown is no less American than his, yet Ryan’s American Idea cannot quite countenance the existence of it. His view of the American Idea is unsullied by our racial history and practices; it is set apart from how we actually live our lives. (He even ignores the fact that members of his own community formed a Ku Klux Klan chapter.) And when I say we, I don’t just mean African Americans. The attitudes of Ryan and his white neighbors in Janesville are just as surely shaped by the value gap as are those of my black neighbors in Moss Point. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 90 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The value gap shapes white and black attitudes alike — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 90; Prejudice-based accounts cannot explain why racial attitudes changed form — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3423; Symbolic racism scales measure a distinct attitude rather than mere conservatism — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 192 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Prejudice-based accounts cannot explain why racial attitudes changed form #complicates (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3423
• Consciously egalitarian values fail to prevent racially disparate behavior #complicates (0.78)
• The value gap shapes white and black attitudes alike #complicates (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 90