“The history of American welfare suggests that enemies of welfare often used race to defeat attempts at redistribution in the post-bellum period.”
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“More religious Americans and Protestant Americans are more likely to oppose increased spending on welfare. Protestantism is also linked to the belief that success results from effort.”
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“Sixty percent of American respondents say that the poor are lazy. Twenty-six percent of Europeans say that the poor are lazy.”
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“The upheaval in continental Europe over the last century has meant that there were no durable institutions which could protect property against popular demand for redistribution.”
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“Racial fragmentation in the US and the disproportionate representation of minorities among the poor has clearly played a major role in stopping rich-poor redistribution within the US, and, indeed, across the world racial cleavages seem to serve as a barrier to redistribution.”
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“Our bottom line is that Americans redistribute less than Europeans because the majority believes that redistribution favors racial minorities”
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