White boys who grew up with Black neighbors are more likely to become Democrats
Researchers now believe a wildfire last year killed 10% to 14% of the world’s natural sequoia population.Column One: Rising temperatures and drought are destroying Joshua Tree. He’s sounding the alarmThis kind of contact may be especially powerful when those bridges between people are built in adolescence, psychologists say.
The 1940 census, in its attempt to record every person living in the country that year, likely reached roughly 99% of the population. Workers went door-to-door collecting personal information for residents, including name, age, gender, race, place of birth, years of education, labor earnings and employment status.
After examining the records for more than 650,000 white men, the researchers found that those who lived next door to Black neighbors in their youth were 1.5 to 4.2 percentage points more likely be registered Democrats in the 2005/2009 data, and 2.8 to 5.3 percentage points more likely to be Democrats than their peers in the 2017 data. They were also less likely to be registered Republicans by about the same amount.
While the percentages may seem small, they have the potential to make a significant impact, especially when multiplied by the millions of people who lived in the U.S. at the time of the study, Enos said.“Ask how many more or less people would have different racial attitudes if we had a more or less segregated society at the time — it adds up to a lot,” he said.The results highlighted the need to be clear on what’s meant by “contact” with people from different backgrounds, she added.
“What I think is really special about this research is that it’s focusing not just at the neighborhood level but at the level of a specific neighbor … so that you’re really getting closer to people’s lived experiences,” Tropp said.
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