Vague job-housing items show weak regional divergence unlike concrete school-integration items.

Evidence

Indeed, Appendix Figure B. (b) is consistent with many of these concerns. First, regional differences on this question are very small relative to those for school integration. A sizable majority of Southerners agree that the government should guarantee “fair” treatment in jobs and housing, suggesting the notion is vague enough for most people to support. Unlike the black president question, whites in both regions become less supportive of the idea of time, perhaps because of a presumption CRA64 took care of the problem or because the understanding of “fair treatment” became broader over time. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1338

Categorization

• XREF: Flags which attitude domains register genuine threatened-privilege (schools, presidency) versus diffuse ones (jobs, housing) — relevant to operationalizing threat that converts to realignment.