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Racism and the Availability of Family Planning Services in the United States

Gerald C. Wright
- 01 Jun 1978 - 
- Vol. 56, Iss: 4, pp 1087-1098
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This paper found that the availability of family planning services in U.S. counties is positively related to the percentage of blacks in the population but has yet to establish the correct interpretation for the linkage.
Abstract
Previous research by Kammeyer et al. has found that the availability of family planning services in U.S. counties is positively related to the percentage of blacks in the population but has yet to establish the correct interpretation for the linkage. Services provided through county health departments and hospitals are usually provided by authority of local boards and county commissions. These people respond to local elites and share local political norms. Threatened whites are more disposed to fertility control programs than whites living in nonblack areas. Little support is found for an altruistic interpretation of local policy decisions. The decisions regarding services provided by Planned Parenthood and O.E.O. are due mainly to urbanism and are not consistent with either the racial or the altruistic interpretation. The variables used to determine these conclusions were measures of black concentration county political orientations other policies affecting blacks and the availability of family planning services.

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TL;DR: The third-party movement of George C. Wallace represented the first noteworthy intrusion on a two-party election in twenty years as discussed by the authors, and the Wallace ticket drew a larger proportion of the popular vote than any third presidential slate since 1924, and a greater proportion of electoral votes than any such movement for more than a century.
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Social and Economic Factors and Negro Voter Registration in the South

TL;DR: The vote is widely considered the southern Negro's most important weapon in his struggle for full citizenship and social and economic equality as discussed by the authors, and it is argued that once Negroes in the South vote in substantial numbers, white politicians will prove responsive to the desires of the Negro community.
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