Demographic threat generalizes conservative shift to race-neutral policy

Evidence

Although the present results offer support for the motivated-cognition perspective on conservatism (Jost et al., 2003), it is notable that the observed conservative shift was fairly broad in scope. That is, participants primed with the changing racial demographics endorsed conservative positions on both race-related and race-neutral policies. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 90

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader question of whether threatened-privilege mobilization replicates across identity axes: a race-triggered but policy-general conservative shift suggests the same broad-ideology repertoire would fire for gender, religion, or nativity threats. — connects to: Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 1; Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 8; Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 40 (+6 more)

Related

• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism (similarity 0.94)
• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. (similarity 0.91)
• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism (similarity 0.91)
• Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. (similarity 0.91)
• Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities (similarity 0.90)
• Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift. (similarity 0.89)
• Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. (similarity 0.88)
• Reassuring whites that status will persist can blunt the threat of demographic shift. (similarity 0.88)
• Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat. (similarity 0.87)
• Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. (similarity 0.87)
• Merely priming demographic-shift projections shifts unaffiliated voters toward conservative parties. (similarity 0.86)
• Liberal and conservative participants responded similarly to demographic threat (similarity 0.86)
• Status threat from diversity shifts whites rightward regardless of party affiliation. (similarity 0.86)
• Threats can produce targeted or generalized conservative shifts depending on type (similarity 0.85)
• Conservative minority-veto impulses recur whenever demographic change threatens white political dominance (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism #corroborates (0.85) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 16
• Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat. #corroborates (0.85) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 36
• Conservative minority-veto impulses recur whenever demographic change threatens white political dominance #corroborates (0.75) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 646
• Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. #qualifies (0.75) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 22