Posted on 05/31/2018 2:55:02 PM PDT by BBell
White Americans are increasingly critical of the country’s social safety net, a new study suggests, thanks in part to a rising tide of racial resentment.
The study, conducted by researchers at two California universities and published Wednesday in the journal Social Forces, finds that opposition to welfare programs has grown among white Americans since 2008, even when controlling for political views and socioeconomic status.
White Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs, the study says.
The findings suggest that political efforts to cut welfare programs are driven less by conservative principles than by racial anxiety, the authors conclude. T hat also hurts white Americans who make up the largest share of Medicaid and food-stamp recipients. President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have proposed deep cuts to both programs.
“I think our research is very relevant to politics,” said Rachel Wetts, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley and the lead author of the new research. “My main hope here is that people take a step back, look at what these sorts of programs do for the poor, and think about what’s driving opposition to them.”
Wetts and her co-author, Stanford University sociologist Robb Willer, conducted three separate experiments designed to gauge white Americans’ attitudes toward welfare and the factors that influenced them.
In the first, the researchers analyzed 10 years of nationally representative survey data on attitudes toward race and welfare programs. Between 2008 and 2012 in particular, they found, opposition to welfare rose among all Americans -- but far more sharply among whites, who also began scoring higher on racial resentment scales during that period.
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It would be interesting to compare the groups getting benefits to their percentages of the population.
Why?
What is your objection to that?
That is intentional.
It is a form of slavery.
The labor of one group goes to benefit another group.
White people marrying each other and having White babies is considered White nationalism.
Berkeley? Rather read from the World Globe then the smartest asshole from Berkeley
I guess now days, that memory is racist.
Robb Willer (born 1977) is an American sociologist and social psychologist who studies politics, morality, status, cooperation, and masculinity. He is a professor of sociology, psychology, and organizational behavior at Stanford University[1]......
"....Rachel Wetts, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley and the lead author of the new research....."
These are two left wing academics loaded with bias who are going to make their 'study' say whatever they want. Predictably blaming whitey is what they want to say.
Another study where the findings were written first.
“White Americans are increasingly critical of the country’s social safety net, a new study suggests, thanks in part to a rising tide of racial resentment. “
Lol.
Captain Obvious!
It’s a bit off topic but Ad Agency’s are run by Gays and Radical Feminists.
It is a math problem and it is unsustainable.
I,am sick of libtards who are racebaiters, viewing everything through a prism of race.
So, she's an advocate, not a clinician.
What was it Lyndon Johnson said when his Great Society was established?
Majority is supposed to rule. White America is still the majority and pays the bills as well.
Sociology is a leftist political advocacy field, not a scienc
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Rachel Wetts, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley and the lead author of the new research. “My main hope here is that people take a step back, look at what these sorts of programs do for the poor, and think about what’s driving opposition to them.”
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Rachael Sweeetheart.
What is driving the opposition to these programs is the lack of desire of the tax payers to be slaves to provide the non working with a free ride.
this is econ 101
“Working America” not white America
Unless something has changed; Hispanics are white whether they consider themselves to be or not. I can self identify as a purple polka-dotted 'whatever' but it doesn't change the fact I am still just an everyday white guy.
I is what I is. ;)
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