Table 2.
Racial Prejudice, Implicitly Racial Policy Opinion, and Vote Choice, by Race/Ethnicity (2008 ANES)
| Latinos (US-born) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death penalty | Welfare | Vote Obama | ||||
| (N = 451) | (N = 451) | (N = 296) | ||||
| b | (SE) | b | (SE) | b | (SE) | |
| Neg. stereotypes | 0.08 | (0.10) | –0.19** | (0.08) | –0.55 | (1.21) |
| Denial of sympathy | 0.16* | (0.08) | 0.03 | (0.07) | –1.57# | (0.82) |
| Constant | 0.44* | (0.20) | 0.64** | (0.16) | 5.51** | (2.02) |
| F-statistic | 4.82 | 2.21 | 7.12 | |||
| Latinos (born outside the US) | ||||||
| Death penalty | Welfare | Vote Obama | ||||
| (N = 128) | (N = 128) | (N = 81) | ||||
| b | (SE) | b | (SE) | B | (SE) | |
| Neg. stereotypes | 0.10 | (0.18) | –0.10 | (0.10) | –3.14 | (2.87) |
| Denial of sympathy | 0.15 | (0.15) | –0.07 | (0.09) | –1.91# | (1.00) |
| Constant | 0.39 | (0.28) | 0.80** | (0.17) | 8.22 | (4.96) |
| F-statistic | 2.07 | 2.27 | 3.88 | |||
| Whites (non-Latino) | ||||||
| Death penalty | Welfare | Vote Obama | ||||
| (N = 1,110) | (N = 1,110) | (N = 841) | ||||
| b | (SE) | b | (SE) | B | (SE) | |
| Neg. stereotypes | 0.12# | (0.07) | 0.02 | (0.05) | –0.69 | (0.73) |
| Denial of sympathy | 0.14** | (0.05) | –0.02 | (0.04) | –0.92# | (0.51) |
| Constant | 1.03** | (0.12) | 0.76** | (0.09) | 3.51** | (1.23) |
| F-statistic | 12.38 | 3.32 | 17.00 | |||
**p < 0.01; *p < 0.05; #p < 0.1 (two-tailed, p < 0.1 presented due to smaller sample size for foreign-born Latinos); ordinary least squares (Death Penalty and Welfare) and logistic (Vote for Obama) regression coefficients. Standard errors are in parentheses. All variables are coded 0 to 1. Dependent variables (column heading) are policy attitudes and vote choice in the 2008 presidential election. Coefficients on the following additional control variables are suppressed: party identification, limited government, egalitarianism, age, gender, and education. The data set is the 2008 American National Election Studies time-series survey; the analyses are weighted for national representativeness. Multiple imputation (m = 100) is used to deal with missing cases and listwise deletion; results without multiple imputation are included in online appendix 3. The difference in sample size between vote choice and the remaining dependent variables is due to the fact that the vote choice question is asked only of respondents who reported that they voted in the presidential election. Results are robust to the inclusion of those who did not turn out to vote in the 0 category; see online appendix 3.