The fourth day of Christmas

IN YOUR OPINION, HOW WELL DO YOU THINK NEGROES ("blacks" starting in 1978) ARE TREATED IN THIS COMMUNITY--THE SAME AS WHITES ARE, NOT VERY WELL, OR BADLY?

                               

                         Same       Not well       Badly

July 1963            61%         23%            3%

Feb 1964             52%         24%           5%

Apr 1965             65%         18%           2%

June 1967            73%         18%           2%

July 1967             72%         15%           2%

May 1968            70%         17%           3%

July 1978             65%         18%           4%

May 1980            65%          19%          4%

Dec 1980             63%          20%          5%

Jan 1987              61%          24%          4%

June 1990            63%          20%          3%

Jan 1997              72%          18%          3%

Sept 1999            69%          23%          3%

March 2001         64%          24%          3%

Feb 2018              53%         38%          8%

Not much change until the one in 2018.  That had a different kind of sample: "interviews were conducted among participants in AmeriSpeak, a probability-based panel designed to be representative of the national US adult population."  Hopefully there are some questions on which the AmeriSpeak panel can be compared to conventional surveys, because if it's real, the 2001 to 2018 change seems important.  By the way, the question was asked of both blacks and whites.  Black responses were broken out in a couple of cases, and were about 40% "same as whites", 40% "not very well," and 10%-15% "badly."

[Data from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research