{"id":13,"date":"2008-06-27T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/06\/27\/the-whiter-the-county-the-weaker-the-love\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T20:45:00","slug":"the-whiter-the-county-the-weaker-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/06\/27\/the-whiter-the-county-the-weaker-the-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whiter the County, the Weaker the Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Here&#8217;s an interesting challenge to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/05\/news\/diversity.php?page=2\">growing view in social science<\/a> that racial proximity decreases social capital and lowers support for race-based policies.  In a good <a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/article.php?ID=258&amp;p=1\">Colorlines article <\/a>about anti Affirmative-Action initiatives that will appear on a number of state ballots in the fall, the author reports on demographic voting data from Michigan&#8217;s 2006 Civil Rights Initiative:     <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Statewide, Michigan is about 78 percent white, 14 percent Black, 4 percent Latino and 2 percent Asian, with most people of color concentrated in a handful of urban areas. For example, while Wayne County, home of Detroit, is less than 50 percent white, a handful of other counties are nearly 98 percent white. Wayne County was one of only three counties where a majority voted against Proposal 2. The other two, Washtenaw and Ingham, include the state\u2019s two largest universities and have among the state\u2019s most diverse communities. <strong>In general, across the rest of Michigan, the whiter the county, the higher the support for the ban.<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><strong>Interestingly, support for the anti-Affirmative Action measure was not correlated with county unemployment rates, a proxy for income levels.<br \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting challenge to the growing view in social science that racial proximity decreases social capital and lowers support for race-based policies. In a good Colorlines article about anti Affirmative-Action initiatives that will appear on a number of state ballots in the fall, the author reports on demographic voting data from Michigan&#8217;s 2006 Civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}