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A widely accepted but seldom examined generalization in the field of race relations is that a higher black concentration yields more negative racial attitudes. The study used aggregate- & individual-level data. The latter was taken from 1972 American Election Study of the Survey Research Center (SRC) at the U of Michigan. There were 1,884 white Rs who lived in 120 counties across the US. Combining survey & census data in a single analysis it is found that this relationship holds only for southern Rs. Outside the South, racial attitudes appear largely insensitive to the racial concentration. 1 Table. Modified AA.

A response to D. Stephen Voss's critique (1996 [see abstract 9713467]) of the methodology used in Giles & Buckner's analysis (1993 [see abstract 9713342]) of racial threat voting in three David Duke elections in LA. Acknowledging outdated datasets, analyses are conducted using Voss's more accurate data, producing no overall change in results. It is argued that ordinary least squares & generalized least squares regressions of the same data do not result in substantively different conclusions. The clumping of urban parish-level data into metropolitan statistical areas is defended on both theoretical & practical grounds. It is concluded that some of the criticisms are accurate, but the implications of differing methodologies & datasets are overstated since the empirical results from both analyses provide partial support for the racial threat hypothesis. 4 Tables, 6 References. C. Ryan

Over the past three decades, as the Democratic party in the South has come to depend more heavily on black voters for its success, it has experienced a decline among white adherents.Power theoryviews relationships between groups as a function of their competitive positions in political, economic, and social arenas. In contexts where the threat posed by a minority group is high, the dominant group's response is predicted to be more hostile than in contexts where that threat is low. A pooled time series analysis of voter registration data for Louisiana parishes for 1975–90 provides support for the operation of the threat mechanism. Higher black concentrations are associated with declines in the percentage of white registered voters who are Democrats and an increase in the percentage who are Republicans. Consistent with the expectations of power theory, this relationship is conditioned by the social status of the parish.

Der wachsende Einfluß von Schwarzen in der demokratischen Partei hat in den südlichen Staaten der USA zur Folge, daß sich insbesondere die gefährdete weiße Mittelklasse von den Demokraten zurückzieht. Obwohl andere Faktoren zweifelsohne eine Rolle spielen, bestätigt dieses Verhalten nicht nur mehr oder minder verborgene rassistische Motive der Weißen, es belegt außerdem die Triftigkeit der Machttheorie, die Veränderungen des Gruppenverhaltens als eine Funktion der kompetitiven Position dieser Gruppen in politischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Arenen behauptet. (AuD-Nar)