ABSTRACT This article examines how the experience of moving from a high to a low-trust place might affect people’ trust and vice versa. Given that the American South has lower trust than other regions of the country, I consider whether Southerners would become more trusting when they move to non-South regions and whether non-Southerners would trust less when they move to the South. My analysis of the cross-sectional data from the General Social Survey (GSS, 1972–2018) suggests that, irrespective of where they move after age 16, Americans’ trust changes very little. The overall results lend significant support for the cultural socialization theory of trust. That is, people learn to trust early in life from cultural heritage and socialization and their learned trust does not respond to new experiences and changing circumstances.

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迁移会影响信任吗？内部迁移与美国人之间的信任稳定

摘要本文探讨了从信任度高的地方转移到信任度低的地方如何影响人们的信任，反之亦然。鉴于美国南方的信任度低于该国其他地区，因此我考虑了南方人搬到非南部地区时是否会变得更加信任，以及非南方人搬到南部时是否会较少信任。我对《综合社会调查》（GSS，1972–2018）的横截面数据的分析表明，无论16岁以后他们搬到哪里，美国人的信任度变化都很小。总体结果为信任的文化社会化理论提供了重要支持。就是说，人们从文化遗产和社会化过程中就学会了对生命的早期信任，而他们所获得的信任却无法应对新的经历和变化的环境。