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.
May 25, 2011 at 6:26 pm
In a little more detail, with graphs (and Asians, Hispanics, Jews, and Native Americans thrown in).
May 29, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Cool, I’ll add a link.