Racial content, not policy-specific reasoning, drives most white opposition to race-related policies

Evidence

So the appropriate conclusion would seem to be that the racial content of these policies is the feature that captures much of whites’ attention. There is little evidence of the kind of independence of white responses to the three policy areas hypothesized by Sniderman and Piazza (1993). To be sure, each policy also has its own idiosyncratic features to which whites respond, and which account for any differences in the frequency of opposition to each policy. But this indeterminacy should not blind us to the powerful evidence for a central role of racial attitudes in forming these preferences. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3709

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Whether racism or conservatism drives white policy opposition determines who must change — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 34