Entry:

Carmines, Edward G. and Champagne, Richard A. Jr., "The Changing Content of American Racial Attitudes: A Fifty Year Portrait," Research in Micropolitics, 3 (1990), 187-208.

Abstract:

Though a large majority of Americans supports racial equality, the public and Congress increasingly oppose government and other procedures to support this ideal. Republican government officials embrace these trends and Democrats may be increasingly disavowing their old support for procedural mechanisms.

1976

Other Data Sets:

NORC 1942, 1944, 1946; Gallup 1940, 1948, 1958, 1970-1973, 1975, 1981, 1983; ANES 1956-1980, 1986