As laws and policies related
to homosexuality have evolved, Americans' attitudes have also changed. Race and
religion have been established as important indicators of feelings about
homosexuality. However, researchers have given almost no attention to how
county characteristics shape Americans' attitudes.
Using Hierarchical Linear
Modeling techniques, we examine how personal characteristics and the religious
and racial context of a county shape feelings about homosexuality drawing on
data from the American National Election Survey and information about where
respondents reside.
We find that African Americans initially appear less
tolerant than other racial groups, until we account for the geographical
distribution of attitudes across the nation.
Additionally, once we consider
religious involvement, strength of belief, and religious affiliation African
Americans appear to have warmer feelings about homosexuality than whites.
Drawing on the moral communities' hypothesis, we also find that the strength of
religiosity amongst county residents heightens the influence of personal
religious beliefs on disapproving attitudes.
There is also a direct effect of
the proportion conservative Protestant, whereby people of all faiths have
cooler attitudes towards homosexual individuals when they reside in a county
with a higher proportion of conservative Protestants.
Finally, we do not find
any evidence for an African American cultural influence on attitudes.
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By:
- 1John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. Electronic address: AAdamczyk@jjay.cuny.edu.
- 2Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology, The University of Exeter, UK.
- 3Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University, USA.
- Soc Sci Res. 2016 May;57:1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.02.001. Epub 2016 Feb 8.
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