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Race, Region, and Earnings: Blacks and Whites in the South
Author(s) -
Rankin Bruce H.,
Falk William W.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1991.tb00433.x
Subject(s) - earnings , race (biology) , residence , white (mutation) , demographic economics , black male , geography , racism , demography , sociology , economics , gender studies , biochemistry , chemistry , accounting , gene
Using data from the 1980 Public‐Use Micro Sample (PUMS) A‐file, we examine the effect of region on black and white earnings within the Black Belt and the rest of the South. We find that Black Belt residence depresses earnings for both blacks and whites, more or less equally. There was no support for the hypothesis that there would be a greater penalty to being black in the Black Belt, compared to being black in the non‐Black Belt South. It is the additive effects of race and region that lead to lower earnings for Black Belt blacks. We conclude that region is a useful theoretical concept which needs to be more adequately theorized and incorporated into sociological analyses.