Racial views are analyzed as the central explanatory variable for dealignment

Evidence

The central part of our exploration of the role of racial views in explaining white Southern dealignment focuses on a triple-difference analysis: how much of the preversus post-period decrease in Democratic party identification among Southern versus other whites is explained by the differential decline among those Southerners with conservative racial attitudes? — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 74

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Southern white partisan dealignment persists across many robustness specifications — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1130