Community Structure and Voting in the South |
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| Authors: | Wright Gerald C Jr |
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| Institution: | Gerald C. Wright, Jr., is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University. The author is grateful to Micheal W. Giles for his comments, to Diane Burgess and Joan Wilson for their assistance on this article, and to the National Institute of Mental Health and Division for Sponsored Research, Florida Atlantic University, for their financial support. The data utilized in this study were made available by the Comparative State Elections Project of the University of North Carolina and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. Neither source bears any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here. |
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| Abstract: | This article combines census and survey data to assess the effectsof community characteristics, black concentration and urbanism,on the decision processes of southern white voters. Examiningvoting for Wallace in the 1968 election, the effects of blackconcentration on voting, attitudes, issue salience, and perceptionsof candidates are found to be generally greater in rural thanin urban areas. |
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