White racial identity barely predicts racial policy while outgroup antagonism strongly does

Evidence

In fact, “whiteness” appears not to be politically significant in America today. In recent research it has been indexed in terms of self-categorization as a White, a sense of White identity (using such items as “How often do you think of yourself as White?” or “How strongly do you identify with other Whites?”), or pro-White affect (using a feeling thermometer). In several NES and Los Angeles surveys, these variables have had small and usually nonsignificant correlations, averaging below r = 0.05, with either symbolic racism or racial policy preferences. In contrast, outgroup antagonism, as indexed by symbolic racism, almost invariably correlates with racial policy preferences at 0.40 or higher (Sears & Henry, in press). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2192

Categorization

• XREF: Counterintuitive against the vault’s social-identity/ingroup-pride framing of intergroup prejudice — a direct empirical challenge to ingroup-favoritism-as-driver accounts.
• QUESTION: Does this undermine ingroup-love-as-prejudice-source theories generally, or only White-American political preferences?
• ADDENDUM: Supports the Allport-reassessment thread’s point that outgroup animus, not ingroup attachment, drives discriminatory policy preferences.