Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson — On the Precipice of a “Majority-Minority” America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans’ Political Ideology

17 published claims from this book.

• Anticipated status loss decades away still shifts politics right
• Anticipatory status threat directly shifts reported political identity toward conservatism.
• Demographic threat generalizes conservative shift to race-neutral policy
• Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism.
• Liberal and conservative participants responded similarly to demographic threat
• Majority-minority shift salience is manipulated by random survey-form assignment among independents
• Merely priming demographic-shift projections shifts unaffiliated voters toward conservative parties.
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism
• Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism.
• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat.
• Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism.
• Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities
• Reassuring whites that status will persist can blunt the threat of demographic shift.
• Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift.
• Status-threat alleviation should cancel the shift-conservatism effect, isolating threat as the mediator.
• The News Interest Index supplied 369 unaffiliated White respondents for the experiment
• Threats can produce targeted or generalized conservative shifts depending on type