Manifold Threats to White Identity and Their Political Effects on White Partisans
Efrén Pérez,
Jessica HyunJeong Lee,
Ana Oaxaca
et al.
Abstract:We investigate how threats to White identity operate among White Democrats and Republicans. We evaluate four identity threats that prior work has underexplored: distinctiveness threat (loss of unique ingroup attributes), power threat (perceiving outgroup collusion), morality threat (impugning an ingroup’s integrity), and meritocratic threat (questioning an ingroup’s advantages). We pinpoint which threats catalyze White identity among specific partisans—and with what political consequences. Leveraging a pre-reg… Show more
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