Whites do not outscore minorities on Christian nationalism scales despite the racial-coding theory

Evidence

Using our data, we also fail to make the inference that non-Hispanic whites score higher on both CS and RT scale than blacks and other ethno-racial groups (see Table B1 and Figure B1). It weakens our ability to validate this theory while we do find CS consistently predicts racially and religiously intolerant attitudes, after controlling the effects of respondents’ races. We suspect if it is because these items were not designed to measure racist attitudes. To properly test the racialized thesis, new survey items including more straightforward reference of race would perhaps be necessary. For example, one may ask if the country will be a better nation if the federal government declares America a white Christian nation. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 212

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s stated purpose of testing whether CN is a genuine schema or collinear proxy for conservatism — this finding on racial non-differentiation bears on whether CN encodes racism rather than conservatism. — connects to: White evangelical cultural influence diffuses Christian nationalism beyond white Christians — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 164; Christian nationalism predicts ultra-conservatism mainly for white Americans, not Black or Hispanic — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 98; Christian nationalism survey items predict racial attitudes even though they mention no race — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 91 (+1 more)
• SEED: The proposed survey item about declaring America a ‘white Christian nation’ suggests a concrete instrument-design angle for an essay on measuring racialized nationalism.

Broader Connections

• Christian nationalism predicts ultra-conservatism mainly for white Americans, not Black or Hispanic #complicates (0.78) — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 98
• Racism predicts white Christian identity better than church attendance does #complicates (0.76) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 543
• Christian nationalism survey items predict racial attitudes even though they mention no race #qualifies (0.74) — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 91