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Title: Resegregated Schools, Racial Attitudes, and Long-Run Partisanship: Evidence for White Backlash. EdWorkingPaper No. 21-401
Language: English
Authors: Taylor Mattia, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Source: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. 2021.
Availability: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: annenberg@brown.edu; Web site: https://annenberg.brown.edu/
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 71
Publication Date: 2021
Document Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
Secondary Education
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Desegregation Litigation, School Resegregation, Racial Factors, Racial Distribution, Racial Relations, Educational Environment, White Students, Racial Attitudes, Hispanic American Students, Blacks, Modern History, Current Events, Political Attitudes, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Cultural Context
Geographic Terms: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
Laws, Policies and Program Identifiers: Brown v Board of Education
Abstract: Brown v. Board (1954) catalyzed a nationwide effort by the federal judiciary to desegregate public schools by court order, representing a major achievement for the U.S. civil rights movement. Four decades later, courts began dismissing schools from desegregation decrees in a staggered fashion, causing their racial homogeneity to rise. I leverage this exogenous source of variation in the racial mix of schools released from court orders between 1990 and 2014 to explore two key aspects of how whites react to attending schools with students of color. First, contemporaneous survey data indicate that as schools re-segregated, white students in these schools expressed more favorable attitudes towards black and Latino students. Second, present-day voter records from six Southern states of white students in schools that re-segregated show that they are significantly more likely to identify with the more racially liberal party -- the Democrats -- today. The findings are consistent with white students experiencing resegregation as a reduction in social threat, and indicate that school desegregation efforts may have caused life-long shifts among white students toward racial and political conservatism.
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