Catholic Voters and the Democratic Party

Greer, Scott

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“…However, the relationship between education and party identification, while still strong, has apparently weakened in recent years Social class was significantly related to party identification for the 1972-74 and 1976-78 periods but not for the 1980-83 period In general, Democratic identification was higher among the lower and working classes than among the middle and upper classes On the other hand, place of residence proved to be significantly related to party identification only for the 1980-83 period. Although, as predicted by Greer (1961), Democratic identification was generally higher among central city Catholics than among suburban Catholics, the values of Cramer's V for the relationship between place of residence and party identification were quite low. Table 4 also reports the relationships between the four demographic variables and political ideology.…”

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Changing Partisanship and Issue Stands among American Catholics

Penning

1986

Sociological Analysis

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“…In his seminal work dealing with the St. Louis metropolitan area, Scott Greer (1961) argued that Catholic-Democratic Party ties are largely the product of classrelated factors. Thus, he argued that as upwardly-mobile Catholics move to the suburbs, they tend to shift allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party.…”

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Changing Partisanship and Issue Stands among American Catholics

Penning

1986

Sociological Analysis

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“…With a large pool of new voters, existing Black and ethnic voters converted to routine support of the Democrats in national and most local elections (Gamm, 1986). By the end of this period, most immigrants, their children, and their grandchildren were loyal to the Democrats, particularly among Catholic immigrants (Greer, 1961). The explanations offered in the scholarship for the tendency to Democratic partisanship are multiple-policy congruence, party/candidate leadership outreach, ethnic connectedness, and the relative failure of the Republicans to reach out.…”

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Immigrant and Native

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Uhlaner

2007

American Politics Research

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The Mexican American electorate includes large numbers of immigrants as well as people of later generations. In this article, we test whether cross-generational acculturation shapes the ways in which Mexican American voters selected between John Kerry and George Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Although change across immigrant generations has long been a critical question in American political behavior, it is only with the current wave of immigrants and their U.S.-born children and grandchildren that it is possible to measure the relationship between acculturation and vote choice. With generational replacement, changes in the dynamics of vote choice across immigrant generations could herald long-term changes in the mechanisms of vote choice. We find that generation does shape Mexican American vote choice, both directly—in the simple measure of the generational dummy variables—and in the interaction between generation and partisanship, issue evaluation, religion, and state of residence.

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“…Efforts to mobilize ethnic political solidarity are successful so long as sons and daughters interact in the same manner and live in the same communities as their parents. As ethnics move from urban homelands to the suburbs, earlier separatist, intraethnic communication patterns break down and new interethnic assimilationist habits take their place, according to Wolfinger (1974: 55-57), who cites a number of supporting studies (Greer 1961;Lieberson 1961;Lorinskas, Hawkins, Edwards 1970;cf. Schnall 1975).…”

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Comparing Paradigms of Ethnic Politics in the United States: the Case of Hawaii

Haas

1987

Western Political Quarterly

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assemble evidence, then argue that their text has vindicated the theory. Researchers rarely present two or three alternative explanations and construct tests to determine which theories fit or fail to fit predictions based on the same body of data.Ethnic voting' is a persistent phenomenon in many cities and states throughout the United States. During the last two decades leading thinkers have speculated about various explanations for the existence of ethnic solidarity at the polls. Because they have argued in terms of single ideologically derived theories more than on the basis of data, the result is continuing theoretical dissensus.The purpose of this paper is to establish a framework for the comparative study of ethnic politics. Theories of the political behavior of ethnic groups will be reviewed first. A propositional summary will then demonstrate how empirical data can be used to test theories of race and politics on a comparative basis, followed by an analysis of ethnic politics in the state politics of Hawaii. THEORIES OF ETHNIC POLITICSTheories of ethnic politics have variously been descriptive, prescriptive, or a combination of the two; the distinction between scentific theories and ideological action programs needs to be clarified. One prominent descriptive explanation of ethnic politics in state and local communities of the United States, as developed by such scholars as Oscar Handlin (1961), is a scientific theory of coalition-building. As each new immigrant group arrived, political leaders of the gateway cities endeavored to capture the votes of the immigrant groups; nativist Yankee groups responded by setting up their own political organizations. The basis for the recruitment of new immigrant groups by leaders of political parties was votes; the motivation of immigrants to support the various political machines was economica desire for economic opportunity and employment, which could be provided when those in office facilitated license-granting and other particularistic rewards. Empirical support for coalition-building theory consists of case

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Catholic Voters and the Democratic Party

Cited by 19 publications

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Changing Partisanship and Issue Stands among American Catholics

Changing Partisanship and Issue Stands among American Catholics

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Comparing Paradigms of Ethnic Politics in the United States: the Case of Hawaii

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