Linking Geographically Mediated Racial Threat and Racial Resentment

Morris, K. T. (2024). Linking geographically mediated racial threat and racial resentment. Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231225581

Abstract:

In recent years, the utility of the racial resentment scale for measuring specifically racialized attitudes of white Americans has come into question. This visualization shows that despite these critiques, racial resentment is highest in precisely the parts of the country where geographically mediated threat is most salient: the whitest parts of the least white states. This link between threat and resentment provides a helpful way to think about these two distinct but related theoretical concepts together.