The last bastion of white racialism: Wandering around in General Social Survey data, I found a number that was surprisingly large. It seems that an impressive 61.5% of white high school dropouts in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky are in favor of a law banning interracial marriages.
Now, I wouldn't have been surprised at such a high number 40 years ago--the actual number averaging responses given in the 70s is 81.6%--but the revolution in racial attitudes evidently passed these folks by.
UPDATE: I'm going to have to amend this post some. I looked at the same group and was surprised again to find that 77.8% would vote for a black for president. The corresponding number for the 1970s is 57.6%.
So, these people are more comfortable, and have been more comfortable, with a black man running the country than one marrying their daughter. Perhaps many of them think a black man would help all lower-class folks.
Are gun owners mentally ill?
Some anti-gun people think owning a gun is a sign of some kind of mental abnormality. According to General Social Survey data, gun owners ...
Peter,
ReplyDeleteIve NEVER MET a white guy who goes after black girls as a matter of routine. White men dont go to movies with black leading women, almost assuredly dont buy porn with black girls, dont spend time leering at black women at shopping malls or clubs.
You know this of course, but you are just a liar........so whatever
Peter is right, actually.
ReplyDeleteMen do not have strong dating preferences by race, while women do have strong own-race dating preferences. (measured by behavior, of course; most people say they have no race preference)
In a large study (PDF) of online dating behavior, white men were about as likely to respond to black women as they were to Asian women.
Black women, on the other hand were even less responsive to white men than Asian men. The authors find that a white guy has to earn $220,000 a year more than a matched black guy to generate the same responsiveness from a black woman.
And I have/do know white guys who primarily lust after black women.
A black man? As opposed to a white man who wants four more years of war and tax cuts for the rich? No problem!
ReplyDelete