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For members of a racial minority, we believe this metaphor breaks down. Using multi-group confirmatory factor analysis, we establish that Blacks and Whites construe the child rearing items differently. Consequently, authoritarianism correlates highly with the things it should for Whites, but rarely so for Blacks. Using an illegal immigration experiment, we then show divergent patterns of intolerance based on the same child rearing scale. Our results highlight measurement's role in producing large racial gaps in authoritarianism, while illuminating the racial boundaries of the child rearing scale.</jats:p>","journal":"Political Analysis","year":2014,"id":19808,"datarank":3.7240865544250634,"base_score":4.812184355372417,"endowment":4.812184355372417,"self_citation_contribution":0.7218276533058626,"citation_network_contribution":3.002258901119201,"self_endowment_contribution":0.7218276533058626,"citer_contribution":3.002258901119201,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":122,"citer_count":116,"citers_with_citation_signal":62,"citers_with_endowment":62,"datacite_reuse_total":1,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":133038,"name":"Marc J. 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