Reconsidering the Environmental Determinants of White Racial Attitudes
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We are grateful to Paul Sniderman for making the zip codes available from the 1991 Race and Politics Study. This paper was greatly improved by the comments of Larry Bartels, Lisa D’Ambrosio, Martin Gilens, Don Green, Taekou Lee, Karen Stenner, and the anonymous reviewers. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Montreal, Canada.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000