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Abstract
Scholarly interest in the correlates and consequences of perceived discrimination
has grown exponentially in recent years, yet, despite increased legal and media attention
to claims of "anti-white bias," empirical studies predicting reports of racial discrimination
by white Americans remain limited. Using data from the 2006 Portraits of American
Life Study, we find that evangelical Protestantism increases the odds that whites
will report experiencing racial discrimination, even after controlling for racial
context and an array of social and psychological characteristics. However, this effect
is limited to the South. Outside the South, political affiliation trumps religion,
yielding distinct regional profiles of discrimination reporters. These findings suggest
that institutions may function as regional "carriers" for whites inclined to report
racial discrimination.