Unfortunately what you have there is very weak sauce, the data is from internet surveys. (If IIUC this is good only in the sense that internet savy Republicans are better than the old fashion ones… that still vote)
More reliable surveys point at the Republicans still having more racists in their big tent, but all groups still have a lot to clean up.
That BTW matches with what the bubble of information is doing to racist Republicans in positions of power, the bubble convinces the ones that have racist issues to assume that a lot of what they think or say is “common knowledge”, almost all the recent scandals of racists sending racist images, jokes and other clueless acts came from republicans.
And as it turns out, the bubble also is not allowing the ones that are not racist to not notice the poisoned well of information that they are relying on.
I poked around and the information reported that they use internet surveys, but they also have a lot of valid surveys in their data base; however, based on other surveys and recent history I have to wonder the quality of the surveys that they are using there.
The data is not from internet surveys, the information you quoted was from internet surveys. The information I linked to was from the GSS.
Furthermore the implicit test you linked to is a better test of racism than the explicit tests as is the questions I linked to. Negative perceptions is not the same as racism.
There are plenty of examples of Democrat racism it is just that Democrats don’t remember them because it is inconvenient to their self-perception. The recent comments about Nikki Haley, or Bill Clinton saying that Barak Obama should be getting him coffee.
Correction: I should have written Republican base, not conservative base. It’s a difficult issue for Republicans, because their support for bootstrapping, hard work, and free trade conflicts with their support for law and order and national security. So, you get muddled results, like this poll of Republicans indicates.
The information was collected online, but not like the typical internet polls that one sees on many newscasts, the online bit is referring to the use of computers to question the subjects.
The survey I quoted also looked at **explicit ** racism. An area that more Republicans than Democrats have an issue with.
I think the take home point here is that there is evidence that Republicans on the whole are not a racist party, but the racists are more numerous there, and even working for Republican [del]stink [/del] think tanks.
Try posting something from Rassmussen next time. No, don’t.
Here’s a better breakdown, I think of Pubs’ (and others’) attitudes on immigration (read in the “Key Beliefs” boxes). Note that a majority of both “Staunch Conservatives” (67%) and “Main Street Republicans” (56%) agree with the statement, “The growing number of newcomers from other countries threatens traditional American customs and values.” (But only 37% of “Libertarians” agree; but, that group is only 28% Republican, 49% Independent-Leaning-Republican.)
While majorities from the Democrat-leaning groups agree with the statement, “The growing number of newcomers from other countries strengthens American society.” – With the notable exception of the “Hard-Pressed Democrats,” 76% of whom agree with the statement, “Immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care.”
The Dems appear more divided on immigration than the Pubs.
How strongly? What’s the value of some of these correlations? Are there better predictors?
So immigration is not the problem then? What’s the median income of the children relative to their parents? How much higher and lower are the rates of incarceration and labor force participation, respectively?
You can’t test for earning potential? Do you think it is easier and less expensive to write up and evaluate an IQ test or have the immigrant submit a pay stub?
How highly correlated with earning potential among immigrants?
So you want to make this a genetic argument…ok…personality is also highly heritable. The personalities of the immigrants are that of hard-work, low levels of criminal involvement, and a willingness to take dangerous risks to support their loved-ones. Since, to some degree which was not specified, immigrants’ children fair worse than their parents on working and criminality, doesn’t that argue there is something wrong with America?
As to the OP, I do not think Republicans can be less well thought of among immigrant populations than they are now.
And yet I keep encountering a lot of talk on the Intertubes about how Latinos, most of whom are socially conservative Catholics, ought to be a natural base for the GOP.
Sure, the Pubs have already put their finger on that, hadn’t you heard? It’s because of violence in movies and videogames! (Which also accounts for the high rate of violent crime in Japan, where the games come from . . .)
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