Table 5.

Regression of Immigration Problems Index (1 = least problematic, 10 = most problematic) on key predictors and their interaction with residence in Chatham County, with robust standard errors.^A

	Variable	Main Effect	S.E. of Main Effect	Interaction with Chatham County	S.E. of Inter- action
County of Residence	Person	--
	Chatham	−0.127	−0.374
Gender	Female	--	--	--	--
	Male	−0.159	−0.186	−0.294	−0.251
Race and Ethnicity	White (non-Hispanic)	--	--	--	--
	Black (non-Hispanic)	−0.121	−0.237	0.056	−0.354
	Hispanic and other	−0.379	−0.562	−0.603	−0.814
Education	No High School Degree	−0.042	−0.324	0.441	−0.490
	High School, GED, some college	--	--	--	--
	Bachelor’s Degree or Higher	−0.664**	−0.221	−0.238	−0.302
Employment	Non-managerial worker	--	--	--	--
	Managerial worker	0.406	−0.251	−0.382	−0.343
	Unemployed	0.091	−0.551	0.231	−0.688
	Retired	0.098	−0.277	−0.595	−0.363
	Not in Labor Market	−0.102	−0.346	−0.223	−0.486
Competition Indicators	Parent of public school student	0.523*	−0.242	−0.135	−0.358
	Own Finances are bad	−0.431	−0.304	1.089**	−0.392
Direct Contact with Immigrants	Socialized with an immigrant	−1.104**	−0.212	0.674*	−0.274
	Worked with an immigrant	−0.580^	−0.332	0.057	−0.442
	Hears foreign language very	0.266	−0.187	0.375	−0.254
	Hears foreign lang. at work very often	0.615^	−0.343	−0.378	−0.450
Media	Reads Newspaper Frequently	−0.368*	−0.185	0.068	−0.261
	Watches “Lou Dobbs Tonight”	0.235	−0.195	0.256	−0.261
	Immig. in media several times weekly	0.186	−0.185	−0.225	−0.251
Tolerance for Diversity	Born outside North Carolina	−0.547*	−0.214	0.205	−0.288
	Speaks a foreign language	−0.648	−0.397	0.173	−0.478
	Has a foreign-born grandparent	0.14	−0.307	−0.371	−0.376
Political Orientation	Liberal	−0.429	−0.421	−1.382**	−0.487
	Moderate	--	--	--	--
	Conservative	0.277	−0.193	0.156	−0.271
	N		998
	r2		0.33

^AModel includes dummy variables for age, coefficients not shown

^**p <.01

^*p<.05

^{^}p<.10

Source: New Immigrant Destinations Project survey, August 2008.