Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities

Evidence

Research regarding how racial shifts affect members of different racial minority groups is an essential, yet still missing, piece of the picture. As of the 2010 Census, Latinos outnumber Black Americans in the majority of U.S. metropolitan areas (“Census,” 2011). The present work suggests that making this shift salient for Black Americans may result in group-status threat and shifts in endorsement of conservative ideology similar to those found among White respondents in the present work. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 94

Categorization

• QUESTION: Directly extends the threatened-privilege mechanism across a second identity axis: if Black Americans also shift conservative under Latino-overrepresentation threat, the mechanism is not racial-privilege-specific but generalizable to any group facing status displacement.
• SEED: Potential angle: does threatened-privilege mobilization generalize to groups not conventionally ‘privileged’ — i.e., the theory that zero-sum anxiety, not inherited privilege per se, drives the effect.
• XREF: connects to: 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 threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 12; Anticipatory status threat directly shifts reported political identity toward conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 69 (+11 more)

Related

• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. (similarity 0.93)
• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism (similarity 0.92)
• Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. (similarity 0.91)
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism (similarity 0.90)
• Status threat from diversity shifts whites rightward regardless of party affiliation. (similarity 0.90)
• Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat. (similarity 0.90)
• Demographic threat generalizes conservative shift to race-neutral policy (similarity 0.90)
• Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. (similarity 0.89)
• Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support. (similarity 0.88)
• Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift. (similarity 0.88)
• Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. (similarity 0.87)
• Racial demographic shift threatens Whites only when they identify strongly with their ethnic group. (similarity 0.87)
• Reassuring whites that status will persist can blunt the threat of demographic shift. (similarity 0.86)
• Racial-shift reminders shift highly identified Whites toward Trump and against Sanders via status threat. (similarity 0.86)
• Ethnic identification, not party affiliation, moderates Whites’ threat response. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism #expands (0.95) — 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. #exemplifies (0.90) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 36
• Liberal and conservative participants responded similarly to demographic threat #contradicts (0.85) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 106
• Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support. #qualifies (0.80) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 5
• Status threat from diversity shifts whites rightward regardless of party affiliation. #qualifies (0.80) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 66
• Racial shift effects operate independent of party affiliation #contradicts (0.80) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 50
• Racial-shift reminders shift highly identified Whites toward Trump and against Sanders via status threat. #qualifies (0.80) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 53
• Ethnic identification, not party affiliation, moderates Whites’ threat response. #qualifies (0.75) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 21