Rick Hasen’s Election Law Blog has posted a study quantifying that southerners are more racist.  Heady stuff.

“The MRP model suggests that the six fully covered states in the South are, by our measure, six of the seven most prejudiced in the nation. . . . our findings are not entirely unexpected, other ways of aggregating the NAES prejudice questions, or of modeling responses, may yield different rankings of the states (to say nothing of other ways of measuring prejudice). We will present additional results at the Midwest Political Science Association conference in April.”

Link to Professor Hasen’s blog with the data establishing southerners are more racist can be found here.