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Description: Dimensions of context ethnic diversity -- minority representation, variety, and integration -- have been shown to differentially relate to distinct implicit associations. A systematic examination of four implicit associations (Black-White evaluation, Black-White weapon, Asian-European American, Native-European American) was conducted across 747 counties and 341 metropolitan areas to rule out methodological variations as an explanation for these differences. Black people were evaluated more positively and were less associated with weapons in contexts with higher variety or higher integration combined with lower minority representation. Asian and Native Americans were more strongly associated with the American identity in contexts with higher minority representation and higher variety. Context diversity effects were largely consistent across context type, were seldom moderated by participant ethnicity, and held when controlling context-level education, median income, economic inequalities, proportion of U.S. citizens, and population density. Thus, the specificity of context diversity to implicit association is not attributable to methodological variations.