Predicting Social Tolerance: Race, Gender or Ethgender?

This study seeks to examines the effects of race, gender, and interactive ethgender identies on attitudes concerning legal abortion and social tolerance of various. The data come from the combined [1972][1973][1974][1975][1976][1977][1978][1979][1980][1981][1982][1983][1984][1985][1986][1987][1988][1989][1990] General Social Surveys conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. Contrary to arguments that race is declining in significance and that race and gender identities are interactive, the results show that racial identity is still the most important factor in predicting the attitudes of black females. In comparisons of the four racial-gender groups, black females were more similar to black males than to white females or while males on all issues and an interaction term reflecting their ethgender position was not a statistically significant predictor ofsocialtolerance. , .. ., ...-.