Table 3.

Effect of selected variables on degree of decline in contact with the poor and increase in contact with affluent between bottom and top income quintiles in 2010.

Independent variable	Decline in contact with poor		Increase in contact with affluent
Independent variable	B	SE	B	SE
Minority group
Asians	–	–	–	–
Hispanics	−0.658	0.508	−2.009^***	0.407
Blacks	0.594	0.508	−3.025^***	0.407
Racial prejudice
Anti-black index (demeaned)	0.008	0.028	0.021	0.022
Anti-black index ^* black	0.032	0.033	−0.034	0.027
Anti-Latino index (demeaned)	0.081^*	0.032	0.081^**	0.026
Anti-Latino index ^* Hispanics	−0.011	0.039	−0.040	0.031
Minority composition
Percent Asian	0.091	0.091	0.185^*	0.073
Percent Hispanic	0.050	0.045	0.019	0.035
Percent black	0.031	0.032	0.010	0.026
Population
Log MSA population	1.745^***	0.312	1.808^***	0.250
Percent foreign born	−0.478^***	0.090	−0.208^**	0.072
Percent aged 75+	0.349	0.221	−0.518^**	0.177
Percent homeowner	−0.250^***	0.070	−0.064	0.056
Industrial organization
Percent manufacturing	−0.004	0.069	−0.152^**	0.055
Percent FIRE	0.106	0.139	0.222^*	0.112
Percent education	0.367^***	0.096	0.100	0.077
Log military population	−0.282^**	0.103	−0.050	0.083
Percent unionized	0.038	0.050	0.02	0.04
Patents per capita	0.001	0.001	0.004^***	0.001
Urbanism
Percent urban	0.019	0.032	0.100^***	0.025
Violent crime rate	0.003^*	0.001	0.002^*	0.001
Median year housing	0.005	0.044	0.047	0.035
Density permissiveness	0.913	0.979	−0.576	0.785
Geography
Northeast	1.340	0.925	1.030	0.741
South	−1.692^*	0.866	−1.506^*	0.695
West	−1.701	1.039	−1.468	0.833
Coastal	−1.986^*	0.802	−1.711^**	0.643
Border	−1.978	1.027	−1.302	0.824
Constant	−13.119	84.529	−101.1	67.760
N	807		807
Adj. R-Squared	0.17		0.39

^***

p < 0.001

^**

p < 0.01

p < 0.05.