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Tolerance Over Race Can Spread, Studies Find | Tolerance Over Race Can Spread, Studies Find |
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| Written by Foresight | |
| Thursday, 13 November 2008 | |
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This was supposed to be the election when hidden racism would rear its
head. There was much talk of a “Bradley effect,” in which white voters
would say one thing to pollsters and do another in the privacy of the
booth; of a backlash in which the working-class whites whom Senator Barack Obama had labeled “bitter” would take their bitterness out on him. But lost in all that anguished commentary, experts say, was an important recent finding from the study of prejudice: that mutual trust between members of different races can catch on just as quickly, and spread just as fast, as suspicion. Tolerance Over Race Can Spread, Studies Find Comments
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