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Sociol'al studies as well as PO polls have consistently demonstrated a relationship between various indices of SE class position (occup, income & educ) on the one hand & att's toward Negroes & desegregation on the other. The nature of the relationship has tended to be, within limits, inverse. The study was undertaken to determine if the inverse relationship would be found as well in affirmative voting on segregationist referenda. An ecological survey by voting precincts was made of 15 southern communities in 6 states employing data about SE class, It had been predicted that an inverse relationship would exist between SE class & affirmative voting on segregationist referenda. The evidence taken as a whole, was inconsistent & even contradictory. The study raised the questions as to whether attitude studies are reliable indices of racial & segregationist sentiment & whether variables other than SE class & segregationist sentiment may not play the crucial role in voting on the referenda. AA.