ABSTRACT
Lloyd Free with inappropriate modesty but appropriate trepidation here reports on studies done by the Cantril group in Brazil, Nigeria, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the United States. He indicates that the data are suggestive but not conclusive: they predicted political instability rightly in Brazil, wrongly in Nigeria, rightly in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, and equivocally in forecasting the Black Rebellion in the United States in the 1960s. The patterning of the ratings provides a rough indicator of how much confidence they have in the existing politico-socio-economic system under which they live and in the regime which governs them. As to the national ladder ratings, the Negroes had a much greater sense of national progress during the preceding five years than any other group.
