Status threat from diversity shifts whites rightward regardless of party affiliation.

Evidence

But party affiliation did not significantly moderate the effects of increasing diversity. When reminded of changing demographics, members of both parties who were highly identified with their racial group moved toward the right and toward Trump. — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 66

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s threatened-privilege mobilization thesis: party identity does not buffer anticipatory status threat, pointing to a general mechanism that may replicate across identity axes and beyond race-specific accounts. — 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; Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support. — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity: Why…, 5; Ethnic identification, not party affiliation, moderates Whites’ threat response. — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity: Why…, 21 (+9 more)
• SEED: Angle for an essay: partisan identity fails as a firewall against status threat — the demographic threat cue overrides party, suggesting privileged-group mobilization cuts across partisan lines.

Related

• Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities (similarity 0.90)
• Ethnic identification, not party affiliation, moderates Whites’ threat response. (similarity 0.90)
• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. (similarity 0.89)
• Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support. (similarity 0.89)
• Shrinking numerical majority makes White identity salient and politically mobilizing (similarity 0.89)
• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism (similarity 0.88)
• Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. (similarity 0.88)
• Demographic shift reminders backfire among low-identification Whites, shrinking Trump support. (similarity 0.87)
• Racial demographic shift threatens Whites only when they identify strongly with their ethnic group. (similarity 0.87)
• Racial-shift reminders shift highly identified Whites toward Trump and against Sanders via status threat. (similarity 0.86)
• Demographic threat generalizes conservative shift to race-neutral policy (similarity 0.86)
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism (similarity 0.85)
• Racial shift effects operate independent of party affiliation (similarity 0.85)
• Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat. (similarity 0.85)
• Merely priming demographic-shift projections shifts unaffiliated voters toward conservative parties. (similarity 0.83)

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
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism #corroborates (0.95) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 40
• 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 (0.90) — 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. #expands (0.85) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 36
• Shrinking numerical majority makes White identity salient and politically mobilizing #expands (0.80) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 68
• Conservative minority-veto impulses recur whenever demographic change threatens white political dominance #corroborates (0.75) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 646