Table 5.

Results of HLM Analyses of Opposition to Intermarriage and Cool Feelings Toward Hispanics

	Opposition to Intermarriage		Cool Feelings Toward Hispanics
	b	S.E.	b	S.E.
Intercept	2.525***	0.102	3.303***	0.159
Individual-Level Controls
Age	0.004	0.006	0.002	0.008
Gender (Male = 1)	0.045	0.171	− 0.339	0.252
Education	− 0.070†	0.038	− 0.001	0.049
Occupational Prestige	0.010	0.007	− 0.008	0.010
Work Status (Full-time = 1)	− 0.035	0.179	0.031	0.273
Locality-Level Controls
Region (Ref. = Northeast)
Midwest	− 0.285	0.287	0.047	0.428
South	0.032	0.328	0.014	0.505
West	− 0.231	0.418	0.486	0.579
Locality Population Size (ln)	− 0.010	0.118	0.013	0.175
Metropolitan Status (MSA = 1)	0.156	0.455	1.136†	0.627
2000 Black Population Share (ln)	0.054	0.195	0.327	0.308
2000 Proportion of Blacks with a High School Diploma	− 1.204	1.747	− 1.983	2.909
Local Hispanic Numbers
2000 Hispanic Population Share (ln)	− 0.114	0.116	− 0.344*	0.170
2000/1990 Hispanic Population Growth (ln)	0.204	0.193	0.650*	0.271
Proportion of Variance Explained
Individual Level	0.0891		0.0139
Locality Level	0.9931		0.9888
Sample Size
Individuals	165		364
Localities	54		61

Note: Entries are unstandardized HLM coefficients with standard errors. All variables have been centered around their grand means.

^†p < .10;

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001 (two-tailed tests).