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Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann
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white Republicans who are both racially conservative & highly knowledgeable were most likely to believe Obama birther rumors
#SocSciResearch
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
In this study, racially conservative = higher scores on racial resentment index (explained below) & highly knowledgeable means answering more factual questions about American politics (eg what is the name of the Vice President?) correctly; interactive relationships figure below:
- “racially conservative” is authors’ term & in common academic usage, not mine or new
- 1 conclusion of near-30-year academic debate about what racial resentment items (in image above) measure is that views of racial group disadvantage are now integrated in conventional ideology
- showing that racists were more likely to hold “birther” views would not be much of a finding (authors assume, not afraid to say); this study’s advance is showing it was high-political-knowledge Republicans with racial views commonly held by conservatives who ?d Obama’s birth
Here are good starting points on racial attitude measurement research:
amazon.com/Racialized-Pol…
amazon.com/Post-Racial-Mo…
amazon.com/Us-Against-The…
& useful recent critiques of the racial resentment scale:
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…
scholar.harvard.edu/files/rkcarney…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
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