Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli — White Americans who perceive themselves to be “last place” in the racial status hierarchy are most drawn to alt-right extremism

10 published claims from this book.

• Feeling in last place racially predicts white endorsement of right-wing extremism.
• Highlighting white privilege can backfire, pushing some whites toward alt-right ideology
• Last-place white Americans perceive nearly all racial groups as clustered high in status.
• Latent profile count selection blends fit statistics with theory.
• Most white Americans hold a racial status profile toward the middle, not the extremes.
• Perceived last-place racial status decouples from objective socioeconomic disadvantage.
• Perceived last-place status most strongly predicts alt-right support
• Perceived racial last-place status, not objective low status, drives white Americans’ alt-right support.
• Personal self-placement, not ingroup placement, most strongly predicts white alt-right attitudes.
• White Americans feel status threatened both by other whites and by racial progress