Maggio, Christopher (2021) The Context of Immigrant Reception in the American South. Social Currents, 8 (5). pp. 463-490. ISSN 2329-4965
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Past research has shown the Southern United States to have more conservative immigration attitudes compared to more established immigrant destination states. However, it is unclear whether or not the places that immigrants have arrived share these conservative attitudes and how this impacts the reception of immigrant groups. Analyzing the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, I find that U.S.-born White attitudes toward immigration are less conservative in zip codes where immigrant-origin groups in the South are most likely to live, often by substantial margins. This indicates that immigrant-origin groups in the South are likely to encounter Southern Whites with a more liberal orientation than Southern Whites more generally. The implications for how these attitudes compare to established immigrant destination states and counties are addressed in detail, as are Southern Black attitudes toward immigration. Regardless, on various questions approximating racial experience/understanding, immigrant-origin groups in the South do not report more negative feelings than those in established destinations and report more positive feelings in some cases, although these results could also indicate a lower awareness of racial issues. Overall, these findings point to a context of reception in the South that is likely more positive than past research on Southern immigration attitudes has implied.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: I would like to thank Philip Kasinitz, Jeffrey Reitz, and Miri Song for their feedback on this article and the teams at Social Explorer and the Cooperative Congressional Election Study for their data assistance. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Publisher Copyright: © The Southern Sociological Society 2021. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Date Deposited: | 07 May 2024 11:03 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2024 06:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122940 |
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