Racist Concentration Map

[RonD1120 62]

My geographic areas are in the 0-20% range.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428103/Majority-Americas-racists-live-areas-slavery-common-says-new-study.html

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[regulator 0]

81-100% fuck yes! Now that this fancy chart has come out we can all relax knowing were all racist. What a joke.

The University of Rochester has found that despite the abolition of slavery 150 years ago, white Southerners who live in the Cotton Belt where the economy was build on slaves and plantations are much more likely to express negative attitudes toward blacks than their fellow Southerners who live where there were less slaves.


Too bad he doesn't have a slave to do his proofreading.


The funny part about this is that that 81-100% of the entire houston texas area include libs like wendy. And LOTS AND LOTS OF BLACK FOLKS. What a brilliant use of this douchebags time.

[champu 1]

So, for starters... the map is showing the concentration of slaves according to the 1860 census... It's just establishing where the cotton/slave belt was located, it's not a results map of the study.

This part is interesting though...

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The University of Rochester team discovered that a 20 percent increase in the percentage of slaves in a county's pre-Civil War population is equal to a three percent decrease in white who identify as Democrats today and a 2.4 percent decrease in the number of whites who support affirmative action.

Indeed, in areas where only three percent of the population were slaves in the past, up to 45 percent of the whites in that area were Democrats.

It's an article in the Mail so I'm not expecting much, but that quote was taken from the school's summary of the study found here. So I took a look into the working paper itself to try and convince myself the author wasn't really equating lack of support for affirmative action and being a republican with being racist. Here's an explanation of the data...

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Partisanship. Our first outcome measure is the proportion of surveyed whites in each county who identified as Democrats. Such partisan identification could reflect not only explicit racial attitudes (including attitudes toward Barack Obama, for the later CCES surveys), but may also reflect race-related beliefs on a variety of policy issues, includ- ing redistribution, education, crime, etc. We construct this partisanship measure from answers to a general seven-point party identification question on the CCES that asks the respondent whether he or she identifies as a “Strong Democrat,” “Not very strong Democrat,” “Lean Democrat,” and then the same on the Republican side (and also including a separate category for “Independents”). We operationalize the party variable as whether an individual identified at all with the Democratic party (1 if Democrat; 0 if not).

Support for affirmative action. The second outcome measure that we examine is the proportion of whites who say that they support affirmative action, a policy seen by many as helping minorities, possibly at the expense of deserving whites. All of the CCES surveys ask respondents whether they support or oppose affirmative action policies, which are described as “programs [that] give preference to racial minorities and to women in employment and college admissions in order to correct for discrimination” (2008 CCES). Although the question wording differs from year to year, we have little reason to believe that these slight variations in wording meaningfully affect our analysis. We construct the outcome variable by using the four-point scale, from “strongly support” affirmative action to “strongly oppose” affirmative action. The Final variable is operationalized as an indicator representing whether or not the respondent demonstrated any level of support for affirmative action programs (1 for support; 0 if not).

Racial resentment. Our third outcome variable is the proportion of whites who express “racial resentment” (or symbolic racism). As defined by Kinder and Sears (1981), racial resentment is an attitude that “represents a form of resistance to change in the racial status quo based on moral feelings that blacks violate such traditional American values as individualism and self-reliance, the work ethic, obedience, and discipline.” As Kinder and Winter (2001) write, these kinds of attitudes “distinguish those whites who are generally sympathetic towards blacks from those who resent the failure of blacks, as they see it, to demonstrate the virtues of self-reliance and hard work.” Kinder and Sanders (1996), among others, have shown that racial resentment measures are predictive of whites’ attitudes on a variety of race-related issues, including crime, education, busing, and welfare. We use a measure of racial resentment using a CCES question directly related to slavery. The question, only appearing in the 2010 survey, asks respondents, also on a five-point scale, whether they agree that “Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for Blacks to work their way out of the lower class.” We use the five-point response scale for this question.

...you be the judge.

[GeorgiaDon 380]

Thanks for digging into that a bit deeper. I wonder how they interpret answers to their questions. For example, I oppose affirmative action now, although I think it was necessary at one time, because I think it has now become a crutch to allow some to make excuses for their lack of success and because it fosters racial resentment. I assume that makes me a "racist" by their metric. Just assuming that anyone who is opposed to affirmative action is racist is simple-minded to the point of stupidity.

Also the notion that voting Republican makes someone a racist is pretty offensive.

Don

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>>>>What a brilliant use of this douchebags time.

Meh, You didn't spend that much time on it.

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[champu 1]

GeorgiaDon

Thanks for digging into that a bit deeper. I wonder how they interpret answers to their questions. For example, I oppose affirmative action now, although I think it was necessary at one time, because I think it has now become a crutch to allow some to make excuses for their lack of success and because it fosters racial resentment. I assume that makes me a "racist" by their metric. Just assuming that anyone who is opposed to affirmative action is racist is simple-minded to the point of stupidity.

Also the notion that voting Republican makes someone a racist is pretty offensive.

Don

Note above it's not just Republicans the study claims are racist, it's all non-democrats, to include people who identify as independent.

I had some hope when I first saw the "racial resentment" metric, and held onto it even as I started reading the paragraph describing it, but then I got to the question that they claim is "predictive of whites’ attitudes on a variety of race-related issues, including crime, education, busing, and welfare." and I just started laughing.

As I said a few years back it's not very productive to try and start a discussion with "listen up, racists..."