Journal article
Revisiting the Racial Threat Hypothesis: White Voter Support for California's Proposition 209
State politics & policy quarterly, Vol.3(2), pp.183-202
07/01/2003
Abstract
Are white Americans living among nonwhites more likely to support ending affirmative action than those living in more homogeneous white communities? Previous research on the contextual determinants of white racial attitudes has explored the "racial threat" hypothesis (that white racism increases with the competition posed by a greater proportion of African Americans in a community) and the extent to which these attitudes are driven mainly by cultural and socio-economic contexts. We test these hypotheses by analyzing votes for California's Proposition 209 in 1996, which aimed to end affirmative action in the state. Our census-tract-level analysis suggests that white support for Proposition 209 was higher in tracts with larger Latino, African-American, or Asian-American populations, even after controlling for other factors. Thus, our results support the racial threat hypothesis.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Revisiting the Racial Threat Hypothesis: White Voter Support for California's Proposition 209
- Creators
- Caroline J. TolbertJohn A. Grummel
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- State politics & policy quarterly, Vol.3(2), pp.183-202
- Publisher
- Institute for Legislative Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield and the University of Illinois Press
- ISSN
- 1532-4400
- eISSN
- 1946-1607
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2003
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9983989275502771
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