From the San Francisco Chronicle: Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United
States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll
finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward
blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not.
Those views could cost President Barack Obama
votes as he tries for re-election, the survey found, though the effects
are mitigated by some people's more favorable views of blacks.
Racial prejudice has increased slightly since 2008 whether those
feelings were measured using questions that explicitly asked respondents
about racist attitudes, or through an experimental test that measured
implicit views toward race without asking questions about that
topic directly.
In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-black
attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey. When
measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans
with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent
during the last presidential election. In both tests, the share of
Americans expressing pro-black attitudes fell.
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