Attitude toward the Negro of Northern and Southern College Students

Interregional Migration and Political Resocialization: A Study of Racial Attitudes Under Pressure

“…' Myrdal provided no data to support this observation, but the single study from this period did support his contention, as far as it went. Sims and Patrick (1936) compared native northern and southern students at the University of Alabama, observing that native southerners' attitudes did not change over time, but that native northerners became more racially conservative, to the point that they were almost as conservative as their southern classmates by the time they reached their senior year in college. Students, however, clearly represent a special population, both because they are of an ''impressionable age'' and because they face an unusually intense social environment.…”

Why are all the White (Asian) kids sitting together in the cafeteria? Resegregation and the role of intergroup attributions and norms

“…Ingroup and outgroup norms have been shown to play an important role in intergroup relations (Aboud & Sankar, ; Deutsch & Collins, ; Sims & Patrick, ). Patchen () found that parental and peer norms contributed towards intergroup contact avoidance.…”

“…In addition, norms – shared beliefs about the appropriate conduct for group members (Jetten, Spears, & Manstead, ) – have long been central to the social psychology of prejudice and have been shown to be powerful predictors of behaviour (Aboud & Sankar, ; Deutsch & Collins, ; Sims & Patrick, ). The amount of prejudice people express is strongly predicted by the (perceived) level of prejudice of others in that context (Pettigrew, ; Stangor, Sechrist, & Jost, ), especially that of other ingroup members (see self‐categorization theory; Hogg & Turner, ; Turner, ).…”

A comparison of black and white prejudice

“…Research shows that there is more anti-Black prejudice in the South than in other regions (Sims and Patrick 1937;Wood and Chesser 1994;Middleton 1976; T. C. Wilson 1986), but prejudice is not limited to the South (Seline 1995). Also, regional differences in prejudice can be attributed to cultural beliefs (Middleton 1976;Bakanic 1995;Firebaugh and Davis 1988) and to institutional factors such as economics (Rankin and Falk 1991;Bakanic 1995;Massey, Gross, and Shibuya 1994;Middleton 1976) and politics (Roscigno and Tomoskovic-Devey 1994;Lam 1994;Giles and Hertz 1994;Seline, 1995).…”

“…A study by Sims and Patrick (1937) illustrated the significant differences in opinion of White college students toward Blacks by region. Northern students studying in the North were the most tolerant toward Blacks, followed by northern students studying in the South.…”