Racial stereotypes, racial context, and the 2008 presidential election

Windett, Jason Harold; Banda, Kevin K.; Carsey, Thomas M.

doi:10.1080/21565503.2013.813396

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“…The effect was not constrained to Obama: Trump and Republican congressional candidates since 2008 have benefited from increased support among racially conservative white voters, even without Obama on the ballot (Abrajano and Hajnal 2015; Algara and Hale 2019; Luttig and Motta 2017; Petrow et al 2018; Sides et al 2017; Tolbert et al 2018). Importantly, these effects appear to be driven by individual-level racial attitudes rather than the racial composition of the voter’s geographic context (Windett et al 2013).…”

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Race, Partisanship, and Democratic Politics: The Role of Racial Attitudes in Motivating White Americans’ Electoral Participation

Algara,

Hale

2023

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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While there is considerable research on the role racial attitudes play in shaping white political preferences, relatively little is known about how racial attitudes influence white participation in democratic politics. We present a model examining the relationship between racial attitudes and political participation in the 2016, 2018, and 2020 U.S. national elections. Using a variety of measures of political participation, our analysis presents a clear finding: the direction of the relationship between latent conservative racial attitudes and political participation is asymmetrical among partisan sub-groups, with conservative racial attitudes motivating participation among white Republicans and, to a greater degree, depressing participation among white Democrats. This finding has stark implications for how racialized appeals are likely to be deployed in an era of increasing affective partisan polarization.

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Race, Partisanship, and Democratic Politics: The Role of Racial Attitudes in Motivating White Americans’ Electoral Participation

Algara,

Hale

2023

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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“…Almost all of that research found that Obama's race mattered—and it mattered a lot—in the 2008 election. In fact, dozens of studies show that out‐group antagonisms—measured by racial resentment, anti‐Black stereotypes, opposition to intimate interracial relationships, ethnocentrism, anti‐Muslim attitudes, and even living in areas with many racist google searches—were significantly stronger predictors of opposition to Obama in 2008 than they had been in prior elections or than they would have been if John McCain had faced Hillary Clinton instead of Barack Obama in the 2008 election (Highton, ; Jackman & Vavreck, ; Kam & Kinder, ; Kinder & Dale‐Riddle, ; Kinder & Ryan, ; Piston, ; Stephens‐Davidowitz, ; Tesler, ; Tesler & Sears, ; Weisberg & Divine, ; Windett, Banda, & Carsey, ). The 2008 election also opened up an especially large divide between Blacks and Whites, with that racial divide biggest between African Americans who scored high on in‐group solidarity and White Americans who harbored anti‐Black resentment (Kinder & Dale Riddle, ).…”

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The Conditions Ripe for Racial Spillover Effects

Tesler

2015

Political Psychology

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A growing body of research shows that Barack Obama's rise to prominence has further polarized mass politics by racial attitudes and race—a phenomenon we have described elsewhere as the spillover of racialization. There is still much that remains unknown about source‐cue spillover effects in general and the spillover of racialization in particular. This study helps fill that void by drawing on prior research in political psychology and several new empirical examples to address lingering questions that have not been adequately answered. Those new empirical analyses suggest that issues that are already strongly influenced by racial attitudes, issues that the public has strong opinions about, and issues where Obama cross‐pressures Americans with racially conservative positions are all less likely to racialize in response to the president's visible positions. I also show that low‐information Americans and Democrats are most susceptible to racial spillover effects. Finally, the extant evidence suggests that the source‐cue spillover effects can have lasting impacts on public opinion and that the races, religions, and genders of other prominent elite sources can also activate group‐based considerations in mass opinion formation.

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Hostile Sexism, Racial Resentment, and Political Mobilization

Banda

Cassese

2021

Polit Behav

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Racial stereotypes, racial context, and the 2008 presidential election

Cited by 4 publications

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Race, Partisanship, and Democratic Politics: The Role of Racial Attitudes in Motivating White Americans’ Electoral Participation

Race, Partisanship, and Democratic Politics: The Role of Racial Attitudes in Motivating White Americans’ Electoral Participation

The Conditions Ripe for Racial Spillover Effects

Hostile Sexism, Racial Resentment, and Political Mobilization

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