What Are the Perceptions About Race and Inequality?

The issues of race and policy views are so deeply intertwined in the us. People's support for either redistribution or race targeted policies does not really depend on how big they think ratio inequalities are, but it really depends on how they explain these gaps to themselves. One of the biggest dividers is actually political affiliation. A black and white democratic respondencs will tend to attribute racial gaps to things outside of people's control,. like past slavery, long standing discrimination, raceism. White republican responsents view racial inequalities primarily as the result of individual decisions, individual actions, not systemic things. And they will be less inclined, because of that, to support redistribution in race, targeted policies to reduce racial