Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich — The threat of increasing diversity: Why many White Americans support Trump in the 2016 presidential election
16 published claims from this book.
- Anticipatory loss of group standing drives outgroup discrimination
- Antidiversity rhetoric attracts status-threatened Whites toward the most extreme candidate
- Authoritarianism operates independent of status-threat condition
- Belief reversal on authority command distinguishes dynamic authoritarians from followers
- Demographic shift reminders backfire among low-identification Whites, shrinking Trump support.
- Ethnic identification amplifies white support for anti-immigrant policies under diversity threat cues
- Ethnic identification, not party affiliation, moderates Whites’ threat response.
- Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism
- Low-identification Whites show a puzzling backlash AGAINST Trump under racial-shift framing.
- Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support.
- Racial demographic shift threatens Whites only when they identify strongly with their ethnic group.
- Racial shift effects operate independent of party affiliation
- Racial-shift reminders shift highly identified Whites toward Trump and against Sanders via status threat.
- Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat.
- Shrinking numerical majority makes White identity salient and politically mobilizing
- Status threat from diversity shifts whites rightward regardless of party affiliation.