Southern and non-Southern whites changed racial attitudes at equal rates

Evidence

While only about ten percent of white Southerners are willing to vote for a black person at the series’ beginning (versus just under forty percent of whites elsewhere), whites in both regions increase at the same (rapid) rate through about 1970, after which point there is more rapid (though never complete) Southern For completeness, in Appendix Figure A. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 319

Categorization

• XREF: Pertinent for the reading purpose: Southern whites’ expressed racial attitudes moved in parallel with the rest of the country, which complicates any simple story that the Southern exit from the Democrats was itself a pure racial-attitude response — relevant to whether threatened-privilege is region-specific or general. — connects to: Dramatic political events shift racial attitudes positively even among reluctant whites; Prejudice-based accounts cannot explain why racial attitudes changed form — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3423; Regional and national racial attitude differences stem from norms, not personality (+4 more)
• QUESTION: If attitudes converged in growth rate while partisan behavior diverged, what does that say about the mechanism linking privilege threat to partisanship?

Broader Connections

• Dramatic political events shifted white racial attitudes in a positive direction. #qualifies (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3378
• Dramatic political events shift racial attitudes positively even among reluctant whites #qualifies (0.75)
• Prejudice-based accounts cannot explain why racial attitudes changed form #complicates (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3423
• Regional and national racial attitude differences stem from norms, not personality #expands (0.72)
• Regional differences in racial attitudes exceed what personality can explain #expands (0.70) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1896