An Alan Keyes Effect? Examining Anti-Black Sentiment Among White Evangelicals

Calfano, Brian; Paolino, Philip

doi:10.1007/s11109-009-9095-z

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“…Evangelicals show the reverse pattern. This finding counters the well-established narrative that highlights racism among evangelicals and fundamentalists (e.g., Calfano and Paolino 2010;Hall, Matz, and Wood 2010).…”

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Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers

Wright¹,

Donnelly²,

Wallace³

et al. 2019

Sociology of Religion

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This article reports the results of a nationwide audit study testing how Christian churches welcome potential newcomers to their churches as a function of newcomers' race and ethnicity. We sent email inquiries to 3,120 churches across the United States. The emails were ostensibly from someone moving to the area and looking for a new church to attend. That person's name was randomly varied to convey different racial and ethnic associations. In response to these inquiries, representatives from mainline Protestant churches-who generally embrace liberal, egalitarian attitudes toward race relations-actually demonstrated the most discriminatory behavior. They responded most frequently to emails with white-sounding names, somewhat less frequently to blackor Hispanic-sounding names, and much less to Asian-sounding names. They also sent shorter, less welcoming responses to nonwhite names. In contrast, evangelical Protestant and Catholic churches showed little variation across treatment groups in their responses. These findings underscore the role of homophily, organizational homogeneity, and the costs of racial integration in perpetuating the racial segregation of American religious life.

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Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers

Wright¹,

Donnelly²,

Wallace³

et al. 2019

Sociology of Religion

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“…Evangelicals show the reverse pattern. This finding counters the well‐established narrative that highlights racism among evangelicals and fundamentalists (e.g., Calfano and Paolino ; Hall, Matz, and Wood ).…”

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confidence: 91%

Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers

Wright

Wallace

Wisnesky

et al. 2015

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…The county returns alone cannot address these speculations directly, but the results from the individual-level models suggest that race is an important explanation. Some have looked to white attitudes and racial resentment in southern states as leading the realignment toward Republicans in the late 20th century (Valentino and Sears, 2005), while others have shown that black candidates can attract support from white evangelicals using religious heuristics (Calfano and Paolino, 2010). Still other recent research on voting in the 2008 election finds that racial prejudice was not absent among white voters using a survey instrument designed to mitigate the social desirability effects inherent when asking about racial attitudes (Piston, 2010), especially in the South (Aistrup, 2010).…”

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Barack Obama's “American” Problem: Unhyphenated Americans in the 2008 Elections^*

Arbour¹,

Teigen²

2011

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives. The largest increase of any ancestry group between the 1990 and 2000 Census in the United States were “unhyphenated Americans,” those whites who claimed an “American” or no ancestry. This article measures this group's voting habits in the 2008 elections. Methods. With individual‐level attitudinal data and county‐level voting data from the 2008 primary and 2000–2008 general elections, the analyses use quantitative methods to estimate unhyphenated Americans' voting behavior. Results. Evidence indicates a strong rejection of Obama among counties with high proportions of unhyphenated Americans in both the 2008 primary and general elections. Conclusion. While spatially concentrated in and near Appalachia, unhyphenated Americans' politics are distinctive irrespective of socioeconomic status, religion, and geography, being one of the few groups in which Barack Obama lost votes compared to previous Democratic nominees. Variation in the share of unhyphenated Americans explains more of the difference between 2008 and past elections than variation in the share of African Americans per county.

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An Alan Keyes Effect? Examining Anti-Black Sentiment Among White Evangelicals

Cited by 12 publications

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Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers

Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers

Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers

Barack Obama's “American” Problem: Unhyphenated Americans in the 2008 Elections^*

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An Alan Keyes Effect? Examining Anti-Black Sentiment Among White Evangelicals

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Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers

Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers

Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers

Barack Obama's “American” Problem: Unhyphenated Americans in the 2008 Elections*

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