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Article: Racial threat and partisan identification.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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Over the past three decades, as the Democratic party in the South has come to depend more heavily on black voters for its success, it has experienced a decline among white adherents. Power theory views relationships between groups as a function of their competitive positions in political, economic, and social arenas. In contexts where the threat posed by a minority group is high, the dominant group's response is predicted to be more hostile than in contexts where that threat is low. A pooled time series analysis of voter registration data for Louisiana parishes for 1975-90 provides support for the operation of the threat mechanism. Higher black concentrations are associated ...