The racial-views mechanism nearly fully accounts for Southern whites’ partisan shift.

Evidence

The result- ing point estimates suggest that the 18.6 percentage-point decline among Southerners with conservative racial views (very) slightly overpredicts the 16.7 percentage-point relative de- cline among white Southerners. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 462

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racially conservative whites’ defection drove the Southern realignment; Southern partisan change included independent and third-party moves, not only Republican shifts. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 62; Southern economic catch-up could independently explain realignment away from Democrats. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 43 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Civil-rights-era policy shifts drove southern whites into the Republican Party #corroborates (0.90) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 105
• Obama’s presidency accelerated the link between racial attitudes and white partisan identity. #expands (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 120
• Southern Strategy repositioned white supremacy as mainstream politics #complicates (0.72) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 186