Protecting the Right to Discriminate
The Second Great Migration and Racial Threat in the American West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3391975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tyler T Reny (0000-0003-2723-4950, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Benjamin J Newman (0000-0001-7055-8585, University of California, Riverside, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1104-1110 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055418000448 |
| OpenAlex | W2890061138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 37 |
Taking advantage of a unique event in American history, the Second Great Migration, we explore whether the rapid entry of African Americans into nearly exclusively White contexts triggered "racial threat" in White voting behavior in the state of California. Utilizing historical administrative data, we find that increasing proximity to previously White areas experiencing drastic Black population growth between 1940 to 1960 is associated with significant increases in aggregate White voter support for a highly racially-charged ballot measure, Proposition 14, which legally protected racial discrimination in housing. Importantly, we find that this result holds when restricting the analysis to all-White areas with high rates of residential tenure and low rates of White population growth. These latter findings indicate that this relationship materializes in contexts where a larger share of White voters were present during the treatment and exercised residential-choice before the treatment commenced, which is suggestive of a causal effect
Ballot · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · State (computer science · Voting · White (mutation · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Housing Market and Economics · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
The Race to Exclude
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White identity politics
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The Constitutional Foundations of White Supremacy
Media, Spillovers and Social Norms
Racial Diversity and Exclusionary Zoning
Black Workers in White Places
Do citizens vote against incumbents who permit local immigration? Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift
Geographic Identity and Attitudes toward Undocumented Immigrants
Representative Bureaucracy and Attitudes Toward Automated Decision Making
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration
Don’t You be My Neighbor
Southern politics in State and Nation
The southern diaspora
Colored Property
The color of law
The warmth of other suns
Race and Place
Racial Propositions
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Escape From Los Angeles
Residential preferences and residential choices in a multiethnic context
The Contextual Effects of Race on White Voter Behavior
David Duke and Black Threat
The Political Legacy of American Slavery
Beyond Racial Threat
Race, Ethnicity, and Political Participation
Intergroup Behavioral Strategies as Contextually Determined
The Diversity Discount
Flooded Communities
Racial Threat, Residential Segregation, and the Policy Attitudes of Anglos
Racial Threat”, Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy
Paths of Recruitment
Reexamining Racial Attitudes
Acculturating Contexts and Anglo Opposition to Immigration in the United States
What the Demolition of Public Housing Teaches Us about the Impact of Racial Threat on Political Behavior
Intergroup Prejudice in Multiethnic Settings
Social Context and Inter-Group Political Attitudes
Environmental Determinants of Racial Attitudes Redux
Reconsidering the Environmental Determinants of White Racial Attitudes
The Warmth of Other Suns
Moving to Inequality
The Changing Color of Welfare? How Whites' Attitudes toward Latinos Influence Support for Welfare
Defended Neighborhoods, Integration, and Racially Motivated Crime
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |