Minority-status threat shifts white Protestants toward Christian Statism.

Evidence

White Protestants relished building in-group solidarity (society-centric nationalism) when their majority status was secure; in this context they supported free religious competition and democratic values—core tenets of RT. But white Protestants shifted their focus to out-group boundary making (state-centric nationalism) when their majority status felt insecure; in this new context they now desire exclusive access to state power to protect their waning cultural influence—the core theme of CS. Because demographic and religious trends are shrinking the share of the public who are white conservative Protestants, we expect that feelings of embattlement and, accordingly, the popularity of CS will continue to grow. If so, traditional white Protestant commitments to democratic values, color-blind ideology, and free religious markets may be nearing an end. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 229

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Offers a status-threat mechanism that could undercut a pure conservatism-proxy reading: CS grows as white Protestant majority erodes, independent of ideological conservatism per se.
• XREF: Parallels religious-economics and group-threat literatures, relevant to Reader’s test of CN as genuinely distinct schema. — connects to: White Protestants seek state favoritism as their dominance erodes. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 228; White Protestant establishment support arose as their demographic majority slipped — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 43; 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 (+5 more)
• SEED: Angle: whether the RT-to-CS shift signals the brink of white Protestant commitments to free religious markets and color-blind ideology.

Related

• White Protestant establishment support arose as their demographic majority slipped (similarity 0.89)
• Majority-status loss prompted white conservative Christians to seek state religious favoritism (similarity 0.87)
• White Protestants seek state favoritism as their dominance erodes. (similarity 0.86)
• Two-aspect nationalism theory explains RT-versus-CS shift as majority-status security drives in-group versus out-group focus (similarity 0.85)
• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. (similarity 0.83)
• Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities (similarity 0.81)
• Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. (similarity 0.81)
• Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift. (similarity 0.80)
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism (similarity 0.80)
• White Protestants shift toward state favoritism as they perceive losing religious market share (similarity 0.80)
• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism (similarity 0.80)
• Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. (similarity 0.80)
• Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support. (similarity 0.79)
• Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. (similarity 0.79)
• Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. #corroborates (0.95) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 8
• Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat. #expands (0.90) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 36
• Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. #corroborates (0.90) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 1
• 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
• Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support. #corroborates (0.85) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 5
• Christian nationalism conflates whiteness with Christian American identity #expands (0.80) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 14