Traditions of Tolerance: The Long-Run Persistence of Regional Variation in Attitudes towards English Immigrants

2015/12/21 by David Fielding · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Culture, Economy, and Development Studies #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Immigration #Variation (astronomy) #Persistence (discontinuity) #Ethnic group #Trait #Settlement (finance) #Expression (computer science) #Demographic economics #Demography #Sociology #Political science #Anthropology #Economics #Law

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Abstract

This article builds on existing studies of the long-run persistence of geographical variation in tolerance towards other ethnicities. Using English data, the study tests whether the persistent characteristic is an attitude towards a specific ethnic group, or is an underlying cultural trait of which the attitude towards a specific group is just one expression. It finds evidence for the latter, identifying geographical variation in anti-immigrant sentiment in the twenty-first century that is correlated with patterns of immigrant settlement in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, despite the fact that modern immigrant groups are quite different from those in the Middle Ages.

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