Carmines and Stimson's theory of racial issue evolution has strongly influenced scholarly
and popular interpretations of US party politics. The central proposition of this theory is that …

Objective The racial issue evolution theory has shaped our understanding of US party
politics since 1964. However, some scholars disagree that racial issues are the chief factors …

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 …

Abstract The Democratic Party in the South has experienced a major loss of white voters in
recent decades. Two major hypotheses have been proposed to explain this change. The …

The conventional wisdom is that racial attitudes, by forming through early socialization
processes, are causally prior to most things political, including whites' party identifications …

Are white Americans living among nonwhites more likely to support ending affirmative action
than those living in more homogeneous white communities? Previous research on the …

A number of researchers have argued that the effects of prejudice on the racial policy
attitudes and general political beliefs of white Americans may be restricted to the poorly …

This article explores the way subjective conceptions of national identity influence the mass
public's reactions to the changing ethnic composition of American society. Using the …

Some recent municipal elections have been interpreted as indicating that America's cities
are becoming more polarized on the dimension of race. It has been hypothesized that the …

In recent years, there has been a dearth of literature documenting a relationship between
oldfashioned racism and the vote for a racially conservative candidate or White opposition to …