Income and the Social Factor in Negro Voting

Abstract

The May 1960 issue of ABS (then PROD) carried an article by the present authors on "The Influence of the Social Factor upon the Voting Behavior of South Carolina Urban Negroes." They found that in this group, voting participation increases as organ izational membership increases, and the more organizations to which a person belonged the more likely he was to vote Republican or independent. In a further analysis sug gested by Professor Lewis Froman of Northwestern University, they find that the social factor is independent of and more important than the income factor. The authors are with the University of South Carolina and the Library of Congress, respectively.