It is sometimes fashionable to assert that higher socioeconomic status whites are the sort who will impose integration on lower socioeconomic status whites, all the while sequestering themselves away. I assumed this was a rough reflection of reality. But after looking at the General Social Survey I am not sure that this chestnut of cynical wisdom has a basis in fact. Below are the proportions of non-Hispanic whites who have had a black friend or acquaintance over for dinner recently by educational attainment: 35% - Less than high school 36% - High school 47% - Junior College 45% - Bachelor 59% - Graduate I thought this might have been a fluke, so I played around with the GSS's multiple regression feature, using a logistic model. To my surprise socioeconomic status was positively associated with having a black person over for dinner, and age negatively associated. These two variables in fact ...
Education encourages integration?
Discover how socioeconomic status whites relate to having a black person over for dinner, based on intriguing General Social Survey data.
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