UPDATE: Audacious Epigone tackled this better a few years back.
origen01 engaged in some thread necormancy on an old post, writing that blacks have admiration rather than vitriol toward whites. As you might have guessed, this sent me to the GSS. There is a question FEELWHTS which reads as “In general, how warm or cool do you feel towards white or Caucasian Americans?” Here are the results by race.

Frequency Distribution
Cells contain:
–Column percent
-Weighted N		 RACE
1
WHITE		 2
BLACK		 3
OTHER		 ROW
TOTAL
FEELWHTS 1: Very Warm 34.8
765.6		 36.5
134.3		 32.0
57.6		 34.9
957.4
2 19.3
424.6		 10.2
37.5		 10.6
19.0		 17.5
481.0
3 13.7
300.9		 9.3
34.1		 18.9
34.1		 13.4
369.1
4 8.3
182.3		 11.9
43.6		 8.7
15.7		 8.8
241.6
5 19.6
431.2		 15.0
55.4		 23.6
42.5		 19.3
529.1
6 1.4
30.8		 5.2
19.0		 1.6
2.8		 1.9
52.6
7 1.3
28.0		 4.7
17.3		 3.1
5.6		 1.9
50.9
8 .5
11.2		 3.2
11.8		 .9
1.7		 .9
24.6
9: Very Cool 1.0
23.0		 4.1
15.1		 .6
1.1		 1.4
39.2
COL TOTAL 100.0
2,197.5		 100.0
368.0		 100.0
180.0		 100.0
2,745.5
Means 2.77 3.34 3.07 2.86
Std Devs 1.80 2.38 1.88 1.90
Unweighted N 2,167 405 162 2,734

What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, so here are feelings toward blacks.

Frequency Distribution
Cells contain:
–Column percent
-Weighted N		 RACE
1
WHITE		 2
BLACK		 3
OTHER		 ROW
TOTAL
FEELBLKS 1: Very Warm 20.1
441.8		 64.6
238.9		 23.7
41.9		 26.4
722.6
2 12.3
269.1		 8.2
30.2		 11.0
19.6		 11.6
318.8
3 15.3
335.5		 5.3
19.6		 14.5
25.7		 13.9
380.8
4 10.2
224.3		 5.3
19.6		 12.0
21.2		 9.7
265.1
5 30.5
669.5		 11.0
40.8		 24.6
43.6		 27.5
754.0
6 4.3
93.4		 1.7
6.2		 3.5
6.2		 3.9
105.7
7 3.6
78.9		 2.9
10.6		 5.0
8.9		 3.6
98.4
8 1.3
28.0		 .2
.6		 1.6
2.8		 1.1
31.3
9: Very Cool 2.4
52.5		 .9
3.4		 4.1
7.3		 2.3
63.2
COL TOTAL 100.0
2,193.0		 100.0
369.7		 100.0
177.2		 100.0
2,739.9
Means 3.67 2.13 3.66 3.46
Std Devs 1.99 1.84 2.18 2.05
Unweighted N 2,162 407 160 2,729

It should be acknowledged that “warmth” and “admiration” are not one dimension, as the Monkey Cage graphs here.

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