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## Racial Resentment Index
## Strongly Agree or Somewhat Agree == 1
1. Irish, Italians, Jewish and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same without any special favors.
## Strongly Agree or Somewhat Agree == 1
2. Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class.
## Strongly Disagree or Somewhat disagree == 1
3. Over the past few years, blacks have gotten less than they deserve.
## Strongly Disagree or Somewhat disagree == 1
4. It’s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough, if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites.
## Strongly Agree or Somewhat Agree == 1
## Racial Resentment is an additive index of these four questions. Zero = No Racial Resentment. Four = Highest Level of Racial Resentment
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