Abstract
One issue that has attracted considerable attention in the political science literature concerns the magnitude of difference, if any, in the levels of electoral participation among black and white voters. Much literature assumes that blacks vote in lower proportions than do whites in the United States (Milbrath and Goel, 1977) and that this difference is particularly acute in the South (Matthews and Prothro, 1966). This proposition's validity, based upon data collected in the 1950s and 1960s, has been made questionable, however, by more recent literature examining the black-lag hypothesis. Verba and Nie (1972), for example, found no significant
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