An Examination of Some Religious and Political Attitude Correlates of Bigotry

Abstract

This paper is concerned simply with surveying the correlation between two forms of prejudice (anti-Semiticism and anti-Negro attitudes) and various subvarieties of religious and political attitudes. It includes an examination of the correlations between the two varieties of prejudice and eight dimensions of religious attitudes and 13 dimensions of political attitudes. The research was conducted in four undergraduate university student populations: (1) midwestern urban, (2) midwestern rural, (3) southern urban, and (4) southern rural. The analysis reveals relatively strong correlations between political conservatism and the dimensions of bigotry in all the populations, and strong correlations between religiosity and bigotry in the southern populations. Kendall's coefficient of concordance disclosed that the ranking of the correlations is significantly similar in the populations examined.