{"id":1228,"date":"2014-05-12T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=19173"},"modified":"2014-05-12T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:29:50","slug":"in-the-atlantic-unspoken-racial-tensions-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2014\/05\/in-the-atlantic-unspoken-racial-tensions-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Atlantic: Unspoken Racial Tensions in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Robert P. Jones\u2019s latest article for The Atlantic is now posted on the publication\u2019s home page. In the piece, \u201cThe Racial Tensions Lurking Under the Surface of American Society,\u201d Dr. Jones shares how \u201csocial desirability bias\u201d affects polling results when Americans are asked about sensitive issues like race. Jones unveils the strategies the PRRI research team employed in the field to deactivate this bias, yielding results that show the anxieties white Americans feel toward the changing racial composition of the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=OC3MQYi28BY:6BVbBZGqoyc:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=OC3MQYi28BY:6BVbBZGqoyc:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute\/~4\/OC3MQYi28BY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert P. 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