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MEASURING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHITE VOTING AND POLLING ON INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2007

Micah Altman  and
Philip A. Klinkner
Micah Altman
Affiliation:
Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Philip A. Klinkner
Affiliation:
Department of Government, Hamilton College
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Abstract

Major questions remain about the extent and political significance of White racial attitudes. In this paper, we examine an alternative source of data on racial attitudes—actual voting on the purely symbolic repeal of antimiscegenation referenda. By applying cross-level (ecological) inference methods to this unique data, we find, surprisingly, that White voting behavior differs dramatically from what would be predicted based on previous survey research on public and private attitudes.

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Cross-Level InferenceRacial AttitudesVoting Behavior

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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 2006 , pp. 299 - 315
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© 2006 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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