Racial Attitudes and Political Preferences Among Black and White Evangelicals

How do racial group attitudes shape the political preferences of Black and white evangelicals? Scholarship has documented the relationship between religion and race in shaping political behavior and attitudes. However, less is known about how in-group and out-group racial attitudes operate within re...

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Auteurs: Allen, Levi G. (Auteur) ; Olson, Shayla F. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press 2022
Dans: Politics and religion
Année: 2022, Volume: 15, Numéro: 4, Pages: 631-648
Sujets non-standardisés:B white evangelicals
B racial resentment
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Résumé:How do racial group attitudes shape the political preferences of Black and white evangelicals? Scholarship has documented the relationship between religion and race in shaping political behavior and attitudes. However, less is known about how in-group and out-group racial attitudes operate within religious populations. Using samples of Black and white evangelicals from the 2012 and 2016 American National Election Studies, we explore the role of racial identity centrality and racial resentment in determining evangelicals' political preferences. While the role of Black and white identity among evangelicals is minimal, we find strong and consistent conservatizing effects for racial resentment. Together these findings suggest that the evangelical racial divide is not driven by Black evangelicals' attachment to their racial identity, but that racial resentment may drive white evangelicals to more conservative political preferences.
ISSN:1755-0491
Contient:Enthalten in: Politics and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S1755048322000074