Regional attitude gaps refute personality explanations for prejudice

Evidence

Pettigrew looked at white racial attitudes in the American South and apartheid-era Republic of South Africa (Pettigrew, 1958, 1959). He showed that differences in authoritarian personality could not account for the large regional differences in racial attitudes between North and South in the USA, nor the large national differences in attitudes between the USA, Europe, and South Africa. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1896