Q. How does it happen that in the presence of racial factors which remain constant, race-prejudice exists in some localities, and is absent in others?
A. No satisfactory explanation of these local variations in inter-racial feeling has yet been given; however, the existence of the variations themselves would seem to indicate that the primary causes of race-prejudice are not racial but regional.
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Q. What study will lead most directly to an understanding of race-prejudice—that of universal racial differences, or that of regional environmental differences which are associated with the existence and non-existence of racial prejudice?
A. The latter.
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Q. Does the systematic study of regional environmental differences in the United States, in their relation to race-prejudice, yield any results of importance?
A. No such systematic study has ever been made; a casual glance seems to reveal an interesting coincidence between race-prejudice and the fear of competition.
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Q. Is competition more likely to produce race-prejudice in the United States than elsewhere?