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The recent rise of a prosperous Black middle class on the one hand and the continued salience of religious conservatism among many Black citizens on the other means that significant percentages of African Americans share both interests and values with White conservatives who vote Republican. In this study, using a decade's worth of survey data from Nashville, Tennessee, African Americans are found to have given only about ten percent of their votes to Republican candidates for president and governor. Those African Americans who did vote Republican were moved to do so by political values: they believed that individuals, not the government, should be responsible for solving social problems. Neither upper‐middle‐class standing nor religious conservatism, both prominent features of Southern Republicanism, moved Blacks to vote Republican.

The recent rise of a prosperous Black middle class on the one hand & the continued salience of religious conservatism among many Black citizens on the other means that significant percentages of African Americans share both interests & values with White conservatives who vote Republican. In this study, using a decade's worth of survey data from Nashville, TN, African Americans are found to have given only about 10% of their votes to Republican candidates for president & governor. Those African Americans who did vote Republican were moved to do so by political values: they believed that individuals, not the government, should be responsible for solving social problems. Neither upper-middle-class standing nor religious conservatism, both prominent features of Southern Republicanism, moved Blacks to vote Republican. 1 Appendix, 28 References. Adapted from the source document.

While conservatives tend to doubt the inherent morality of human nature & seek to maintain tradition, & liberals tend to believe in the inherent morality of human nature & seek beneficial change, these positions are reversed when the topic is environmentalism. This unexpected reversal may stem from the liberal tendency to see human beings as a part of nature, from the conservative tendency to see humans as separate from nature, or from a conservative notion that Adam Smith's idea of an "invisible hand" may apply in nature as well as in economics. It is argued that conservatives might favor environmental protection more than they currently do if they were able to recognize that the natural world is just as complex & fragile as the social world. D. Weibel