TY - JOUR
T1 - Conditioned by Race
T2 - How Race and Religion Intersect to Affect Candidate Evaluations
AU - McLaughlin, Bryan
AU - Thompson, Bailey A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2016 Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - While it is becoming increasingly clear that religious cues influence voter evaluations in the United States, work examining religious cues has largely overlooked the conditioning role of race. We employed a 2 × 2 (White candidate vs. Black candidate) × (racial cues vs. no racial cues) online experiment with a national sample (N = 397; 56% white, 46% black) where participants were exposed to a fictitious congressional candidate's webpage. Results show that White participants expected the religious candidate to be more conservative, regardless of race, while Black participants did not perceive a difference in ideology between the religious and non-religious Black candidates. Additionally, when it comes to candidate favorability, religious cues matter more to White participants, while racial cues are most important to Black participants. These findings provide evidence that religious and racial cues activate different assumptions among White and Black citizens.
AB - While it is becoming increasingly clear that religious cues influence voter evaluations in the United States, work examining religious cues has largely overlooked the conditioning role of race. We employed a 2 × 2 (White candidate vs. Black candidate) × (racial cues vs. no racial cues) online experiment with a national sample (N = 397; 56% white, 46% black) where participants were exposed to a fictitious congressional candidate's webpage. Results show that White participants expected the religious candidate to be more conservative, regardless of race, while Black participants did not perceive a difference in ideology between the religious and non-religious Black candidates. Additionally, when it comes to candidate favorability, religious cues matter more to White participants, while racial cues are most important to Black participants. These findings provide evidence that religious and racial cues activate different assumptions among White and Black citizens.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962092171&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1755048316000213
DO - 10.1017/S1755048316000213
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84962092171
VL - 9
SP - 605
EP - 629
JO - Politics and Religion
JF - Politics and Religion
SN - 1755-0483
IS - 3
ER -