White Christian nationalists answer history questions wrongly while Black ones abstain

Evidence

Black Americans tend to score lower than whites on the quiz, primarily because they are more likely to simply say they don’t know. But there is no association between their scores on the test and their adherence to Christian nationalism. Not so with whites. The higher they score on Christian nationalism, the lower they score on the test. Why? Not because they don’t give answers but because they give wrong answers. — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 111

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to motivated reasoning and confirmation-bias material in Trust — Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, where lay people avoid disconfirming evidence.