Racial shift effects operate independent of party affiliation

Evidence

Consistent with Craig and Richeson’s (2014b) findings, however, political affiliation did not significantly interact with condition to predict any dependent variable (all ps ⩾ .072). — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 50

Categorization

• QUESTION: If party affiliation doesn’t moderate the effect, then the zero-sum status threat response is not purely a Republican/conservative phenomenon — worth chasing whether this generalized mechanism crosses party lines too, which would strongly support the cross-axis replication thesis.
• XREF: connects to: Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 94; Status threat from diversity shifts whites rightward regardless of party affiliation. — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity: Why…, 66; Sociological approaches insist race and ethnicity have autonomous, non-reducible effects (+1 more)

Related

• Ethnic identification, not party affiliation, moderates Whites’ threat response. (similarity 0.85)
• Merely priming demographic-shift projections shifts unaffiliated voters toward conservative parties. (similarity 0.85)
• Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities (similarity 0.85)
• Status threat from diversity shifts whites rightward regardless of party affiliation. (similarity 0.85)
• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. (similarity 0.84)
• Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat. (similarity 0.84)
• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism (similarity 0.83)
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism (similarity 0.83)
• Racial demographic shift threatens Whites only when they identify strongly with their ethnic group. (similarity 0.82)
• Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. (similarity 0.81)
• Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support. (similarity 0.81)
• Demographic threat generalizes conservative shift to race-neutral policy (similarity 0.81)
• Liberal and conservative participants responded similarly to demographic threat (similarity 0.80)
• Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift. (similarity 0.80)
• Racial-shift reminders shift highly identified Whites toward Trump and against Sanders via status threat. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. #exemplifies (0.85) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 8
• Status threat from diversity shifts whites rightward regardless of party affiliation. #complicates (0.82) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 66
• Sociological approaches insist race and ethnicity have autonomous, non-reducible effects #corroborates (0.80)