Last-place white Americans perceive nearly all racial groups as clustered high in status.

Evidence

Although we focus on the relative placement of the self compared to both one’s own racial group and other racial groups, the three profiles also reflected interesting variability in participants’ use of the range of the status scale. Of particular interest, the “Last Place” profile was characterized by ranking all groups toward the top of the status hierarchy. — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 88

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the self-catalytic threat loop reading purpose — perceived last-place people see a tight competitive race at the top. — connects to: Perceived racial last-place status, not objective low status, drives white Americans’ alt-right support. — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 60

Related

• Perceived last-place racial status decouples from objective socioeconomic disadvantage. (similarity 0.91)
• Feeling in last place racially predicts white endorsement of right-wing extremism. (similarity 0.87)
• Perceived racial last-place status, not objective low status, drives white Americans’ alt-right support. (similarity 0.87)
• White Americans feel status threatened both by other whites and by racial progress (similarity 0.86)
• Personal self-placement, not ingroup placement, most strongly predicts white alt-right attitudes. (similarity 0.85)
• Perceived last-place status most strongly predicts alt-right support (similarity 0.84)
• Most white Americans hold a racial status profile toward the middle, not the extremes. (similarity 0.83)
• Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli — White Americans who perceive themselves to be last place in the racial status hierarchy are most… (similarity 0.81)
• Highlighting white privilege can backfire, pushing some whites toward alt-right ideology (similarity 0.78)