BEYOND RACIAL THREAT - FAILURE OF AN OLD HYPOTHESIS IN THE NEW SOUTH

Former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ran three statewide campaigns in Lo uisiana. This note presents a GLS analysis of his voting support. It s uggests that whites living in racially heterogeneous parishes were no more likely to support Duke than those in less-diverse locales, contra ry to the ''racial threat hypothesis.'' Suburban whites were particula rly likely to back Duke. Giles and Buckner (1993) present contrary res ults because their analysis contained measurement error and omitted va riable bias, aggregated data for urban areas inappropriately, and used OLS on grouped data.