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- Title
Is America More Divided by Race or Class? Race, Income, and Attitudes among Whites, African Americans, and Latinos.
- Authors
Rhodes, Jesse H.; Schaffner, Brian F.; McElwee, Sean
- Abstract
Scholars have long been interested in examining how race and class each shape citizens' political attitudes. To date, however, there have been few efforts to untangle how race and class intersect to shape Americans' political identities and attitudes about public policies. We argue that it is important to investigate attitudes inter-sectionally. Pooling the 2012 and 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Studies to obtain large numbers of observations of non-whites and individuals with high incomes, we observe patterns of partisan identity, beliefs about racial prejudice, and attitudes about public policies. Our results suggest that race and class intersect in different ways for different groups in society. Increasing income erodes differences in attitudes between Latinos and whites, but has no effect on the large gap in attitudes between African Americans and whites.
- Subjects
POLITICAL attitudes; RACE awareness; POLITICAL campaigns; ECONOMICS &; politics; HISTORY of political parties; UNITED States Congressional committees; HISTORY of United States elections; UNITED States politics &; government; HISTORY
- Publication
Forum (2194-6183), 2017, Vol 15, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
2194-6183
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/for-2017-0005