Racially conservative white Southerners abandoned Democratic identification after 1964.

Evidence

Relative to 1962, white Southerners against integration are nine percentage points less likely to identify as Democrats in 1964-1980, compared to their non-Southern counterparts. Whereas the Gallup analysis showed non-Southern whites with conservative racial views only slightly moving away from the party, the effect in the ANES is larger and achieves significance. These patterns of coefficients hold when we extend the post-period to 2000 (cols. 3 and 4) or end it in 1970 (cols. 5 and 6). — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1327

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s threatened-privilege research concern and to earlier Gallup findings in the same paper. — connects to: Racially conservative whites’ defection drove the Southern realignment; Historians still dispute whether race or economics drove white Southern exit from the Democrats. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 49; A Democratic black voting bloc slowed Southern whites’ natural dealignment from the Democratic Party. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 186 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Civil-rights-era policy shifts drove southern whites into the Republican Party #corroborates (0.93) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 105