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Whether Blacks have too much, about the right amount, or too little influence, from ANES; the 1972 to 2000 version asks about 'American life and politics', and the 2008 to 2020 version asks about 'American politics' only.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 50% answered “Too little influence” in ANES: Influence of blacks in American politics, 2020.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES: Influence of blacks in American politics → mixed mode (2012).
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES: Influence of blacks in American politics → mixed mode (2012).
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 11 points on average across all answers, in ANES: Influence of blacks in American life and politics.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
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| ANES: Influence of blacks in American life and politics | Influence of blacks in American life and politics ALL YEARS:
Some people think that certain groups have too much influence in American life and politics, while other people feel that certain groups don’t have as much influence as they deserve.
1972-1976:
Here are three statements about how much influence a group might have. For each group I read to you, just tell me the number of the statement that best says how you feel: blacks
2000:
I am going to read you a list of groups, for each one please tell me whether that group has too much influence, just about the right amount of influence or too little influence. What about blacks?
(Would you say they have too much influence, just about the right amount of influence, or too little influence?) Caveat: Wording varies by year (1972-76 statement format; 2000 list format); covers 'American life and politics' | equivalent | Too much influence → Too much influence; Just about the right amount → About the right amount; Too little influence → Too little influence |
| ANES: Influence of blacks in American politics | Influence of blacks in American politics Would you say that blacks have too much influence in American politics, just about the right amount of influence in American politics, or too little influence in American politics? Caveat: Asks about influence in American politics only, not life and politics | similar | Too much influence → Too much influence; Just about the right amount → About the right amount; Too little influence → Too little influence |
Groups differ from everyone by 9 points on average across all answers, in ANES: Influence of blacks in American life and politics.
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.