White racial conservatism is driven by anti-Black antagonism, not White identity or favoritism.

Evidence

Whites’ racial politics today are all about antagonism toward Blacks. Neither a self-conscious sense of “whiteness” nor a positive evaluation of Whites has much to do with either symbolic racism or opposition to liberal racial policies. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2193

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relates to the vault’s contact-theory and symbolic racism thread; contradicts group-position/ingroup-love explanations of racial conservatism.