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Why White Voters With Racist Views Often Still Support Black Republicans | FiveThirtyEight
Much of that relationship is likely partisanship, like voting for a Republican because he's a Republican (in fairness, a lot of Democrats vote for Democrats because he/she is a Democrat). So a good test would be BC vs. other Republicans.
Support both in likability and in vote share. It's hard to see what they like about BC, since he isn't some Jesse Lee Peterson type.... Conservatives were quick to counter claims that Youngkin’s win represented the effectiveness of stoking racial fears with results from Virginia’s down-ballot election for lieutenant governor — a contest where the Republican candidate, Winsome Sears, made history by becoming the first Black woman elected to statewide office in Virginia. ...
But supporting a Black candidate hardly precludes voters from harboring racist beliefs and motivations. Republicans are increasingly more likely than Democrats to hold prejudiced views of minorities, so Black Republicans like Sears often draw especially strong support from white Americans with otherwise anti-Black views simply because they draw most of their support from Republican voters.
A clear example of this was in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, when Ben Carson made a bid to become the GOP’s first African American presidential nominee. Support for Carson was positively correlated with the belief that Black Americans have too much influence on U.S. politics, according to data from Washington University in St. Louis’s American Panel Survey (TAPS) in late 2015 ...
Much of that relationship is likely partisanship, like voting for a Republican because he's a Republican (in fairness, a lot of Democrats vote for Democrats because he/she is a Democrat). So a good test would be BC vs. other Republicans.