@dietz199 I’m not here to present a new position or make some new claim. I don’t need to defend something on which others have conducted research. They made their claims and made their defenses. If you want to scrutinize their work, then by all means, do so. I am not here to play educator, nor am I going to attempt to appropriate their work.If you have a genuine interest in the subject, then there are plenty of scholarly articles available on studies conducted regarding behavior patterns and racism. You can find these publications and scrutinize them yourself.
@LegacyMom Studies have measured what you might call ‘outward’ racism, expressed in intentionally racist comments; and ‘implicit’ racism, which is evident in how subjects respond to certain questions.
Psychologists have done studies finding racism (implicit or explicit) linked to lower IQs and lower IQs linked to conservative tendencies. Political scientists have done other, more explicitly linked, research into racism and political ideology.
I am no political scientist (It’s been at least 5 years since I’ve gone near any substantive political science), so I would be unable to provide you with the most up-to-date contemporary research on the issue (e.g. case studies in particular geographic areas). Google scholar (as much as I dislike it), if you have no access to databases, should provide a number of articles. ‘Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes’ conducted by researchers at Brock University comes immediately to mind. I believe someone at Stanford has published a recent study on voting and racism in the 2008-2012 period as well.