Racism drives whites’ policy views regardless of policy content or education

Evidence

The generality of a role of racism should be demonstrated if (e) whites’ responses to racial policies have a strong racial basis regardless of policy content; (f) racial attitudes have significant independent effects on whites’ evaluations of black candidates and of fringe white candidates with a reputation for ethnocentrism, but evaluations of mainstream white candidates are overshadowed by nonracial partisan attitudes; (g) racial attitudes dominate nonracial attitudes in explaining even college-educated whites’ racial policy preferences. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3620

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race and segregation preoccupied American audiences even in economic policy contexts — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 550; Whether racism or conservatism drives white policy opposition determines who must change — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 34