Reconsidering the Environmental Determinants of White Racial Attitudes

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J. Eric Oliver is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University,Robertson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 (eoliver@wws.princeton.edu). Tali Mendelberg isAssistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University, Corwin Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544(talim@princeton.edu).We are grateful to Paul Sniderman for making the zip codes available from the 1991Race and Politics Study. This paper was greatly improved by the comments of LarryBartels, Lisa D’Ambrosio, Martin Gilens, Don Green, Taekou Lee, Karen Stenner, andthe anonymous reviewers. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1998Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Montreal, Canada.